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Alexander III abolished serfdom and in 1894 Tzar Nicholas II said "I'm not prepared to be Tzar"

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1905
Gregory Gapon priest that lead workers.
Trostky and Lenin paralyzed factories.

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It was International Women's Day. Working took to the streets of Petrograd. So, Petrograd had been St. Petersburg, but that sounded too German, so they made it Petrograd, but soon it would be Leningrad, only eventually to become St. Petersburg again.

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Members of the Duma set up to end the revolution of 1905, constituted themselves as a Provisional Government, consisting of monarchist, conservative, liberal and a variety of socialist members.

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The Germans organized Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin's passage from exile in Switzerland back to Russia. Bolsheviks, breaking with Marx's idea of the working-class spearheading revolutionary change, believed that an elite cadre of leaders needed to lead the revolution. Once Lenin returned to Russia, he began making public speeches and declared a platform of "Peace, Bread, Land" an explicit rejection of continuing the war.

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Lenin, along with another Bolshevik leader, Leon Trotsky, helped make the Bolsheviks stand out with their publicity and grass-roots organizing in factories and among soldiers.

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So basically, in the summer of 1917, charismatic lawyer Alexander Kerensky came to head the Provisional Government with the aim of reviving Russia's capacity to fight in World War I, but the effort ultimately failed.

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Elsewhere, so they established the Communist International or Comintern in 1919. Brest-Litovsk was a turning point for many, including those who were ready to continue fighting for a Russian victory in World War I. Dissident generals received volunteers from an array of those who feared the rise of the Bolsheviks, from monarchists and liberals to other kind of socialists.

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The Bolsheviks also executed sailors at Kronstadt who objected to the growing privileges of the Bolsheviks elite, but instead of the state "withering away" after a workers revolution as Marx had predicted, the Bolshevik state became ever more powerful, albeit with the support of many in the population.

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In fact, in 1921 Lenin declared the New Economic Policy in which elements of capitalism such as individual businesses would be allowed to help boost productivity.

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The union of Soviet Socialist Republics was declared. Up and coming Bolsheviks activist Joseph Stalin helped forge this federation from the ethnic groups of the former Russian empire. The USSR supposedly fulfilled a Bolshevik promise to more than 100 ethnicities of the old Russian empire that they might retain their culture, and language, and other local ways.

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Pioneering filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein produced classic celebrations of ordinary people such "Battleship Potemkin" which is about a bunch of sailors rebelling against tsarist brutality. But it's inaccurate to imagine the Bolshevik revolution led to some immediate and total Communism.