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-The Romanov dynasty controlled the Russian empire.
-In Russia they were dependent on serfdom to plant crops.
-Serfdom was abolished in 1861.

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- He became Czar in 1894.
- Russia was first struggling until Nicolas II took control and made it better
- The poor population increased.

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- His troops opened fire on the people because Czar was not home.
- The people wanted justice and protection.

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- Duma was a type of government that left that old system of Nicolas
- Nicolas did not want to lose any of his power.
- They approve laws and and has the right to coin money

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- Russia allied with the French and the British.
- The Serbian nationalist Gavril Principe killed the archduke to the Austrian throne.
- The Serbs said that it is impossible to defend themselves.

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Czar Nicholas takes command of the army, 1915

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Czar Nicholas takes command of the army, 1915

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- A lot of the Russian people were mad because there sons and dads were dying in war, and citizens were also suffering to find food and supply.
- Nicolas took command of the troops when he noticed they men were dying left and right and citizens back home were barely surviving.
-1,700,000

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- Rasputin left control of the country to his wife Czarina Alexandra.
- He was a big influence, because he carried a lot of power and was overall know in Czarina.
- No the Czarina did not listen to her advisors about Rasputin.
-They shot and killed him first, the bundled him up with sheet, and then threw him in the river.

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- Workers started to strike, and the soldiers started to desert their post, to show how miserable and unhappy they had become.
- The troops started to join the riots that the soldiers had begun.
-The Czar gave up his throne, basically gave up all his power.
-The Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich, took over Nicolas's throne.

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 Provisional Government takes over, Spring 1917

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 Provisional Government takes over, Spring 1917

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- He was hoping to set up a provisional or temporary government.
- The provisional government was struggling, and hard to keep.
- The Provisional leaders didn't give their power to the bourgeoisie rich because it would have been bad for society and the reolvution.

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-Bolsheviks were communist people.
- The communism appeal to the working class poor because they had nothing to lose.
- Lenin promised Peace, Land and Bread to the people.
- Lenin said that delaying the uprising would be fatal, to the people.

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The Bolsheviks take power, Revolution of October 1917

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The Bolsheviks take power, Revolution of October 1917

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- Lenin and his followers began a take-over of St. Petersburg.
- The Red Army supported the Bolsheviks.
-The White Army was against the the Bolsheviks.
- The Bolsheviks To persecute and break up all acts of counter-revolution and sabotage all over Russia, no matter what their
origin.

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- The Russians lost the treaty, because they lost territory. They lost Poland, Finland and the Ukraine.
- The war was still happening until November 1918, when the Germans, Austrians and Ottomans all surrendered.
-The purpose of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was that they are were to resolve to live within henceforth in peace and amity with one another, and not fight.

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Death of Nicholas II and his family, July 1918

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Death of Nicholas II and his family, July 1918

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- The royal Family moved to Ekaterinburg to get free from the Bolsheviks, because they were taking over.
-The family in the middle of the night, were taken down to the basement,  shot and killed.
-Alexi was the last of the royal family to get shot.

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- Lenin named Russia United Soviet Socialist Republic or USSR.
- The additional countries that the empire included was Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan,
Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.

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-The Red Army and the Bolsheviks won the Russian war.
-The Civil War had a terrible big impact on Russia. Over 15 million people died.

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-Lenin's health's just getting worse every day to the point where he suffered a series of strokes that  left him bedridden and unable to speak.
-Josef Stalin took over USSR in 1924
- Lenin rules USSR for over 30 years.