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Widespread inflation and food shortages. Peasants refused to sell grain during WWI to protest the war (winter 1916) which led to food shortages across Russia.

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The Czarist government had poor management of World War I. Czar Nicholas II was corrupt and declared war against Germany, Austria, and Hungary. This made him a ruler of over 150 million people by July 1914.

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January 22, 1905: (Bloody Sunday): Workers march to Tsar's palace to present a petition for better working conditions. They were shot at when they got there and many were injured and killed.

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23rd February 1917: (National women's day) Workers strike including many women to protest the war and the food shortages. Tsar ordered his army to take action but many of the soldiers refused and began a mutiny against Tsar.

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9th September 1917: General Kornilov orders troops to Petrograd to counter the threats presented by the Bolshevik party.

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7th November 1917: The Bolsheviks seize control of Petrograd.

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10th July 1918: The soviet republic grants equal rights to men and women in their first constitution.

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30th August 1918: (The Red Terror) Freddy Kaplan attempts to assassinate V.I. Lenin. (The leader of the Bolshevik party) This leads to a series of mass arrests and executions.

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July 1918: Nicholas II is shot and stabbed to death in a cellar by Bolshevik revolutionaries.

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A civil war occurs between Lenin's communist party (red) and anti the anti Bolshevik party (white). This group of people disagreed with Lenin´s strategies such as the Gulag system. (brutal network of prison systems for prisoners political and criminal)