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Abolishment of Serfdom
The Abolition of Serfdom in Russia presents the reform as a process.
Tsar Alexander II issued the statutes abolishing the institution of serfdom in Russia.
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Alexander III
During Alexander's reign Russia fought no major wars, for which he was styled "The Peacemaker".
He open rupture with Germany,
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Trans-Siberian Railway
The Trans-Siberian is a network of railways connecting Moscow with the Russian Far East and the Sea of Japan.
Is associated with the main transcontinental Russian line that connects hundreds of large and small cities of the European and Asian parts of Russia.
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Nicholas II
He was the last Emperor of Russia
His official short title was Tsar Nicholas II, Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias.
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Russo Japanese War
It was in the Yellow Sea, Manchuria, the Korean Peninsula.
It was the Russian Empire, ruled by Tsar Nicholas II, versus the Japanese Empire, ruled by the Meiji Emperor.
Following the Russian rejection of a Japanese plan to divide Manchuria and Korea into spheres of influence.
During the subsequent Russo-Japanese War, Japan won a series of decisive victories over the Russians, who underestimated the military potential of its non-Western opponent.
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Bloody Sunday
The workers of St Petersburg organised a peaceful demonstration to demand political and constitutional reform.
It was led by an Orthodox priest, Father Georgi Gapon, marched through the city streets armed with a petition to be presented to the tsar, Nicholas.
a group of workers led by the radical priest Georgy Apollonovich Gapon marched to the czar’s Winter Palace in St. Petersburg to make their demands.
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Marxism
The largest Marxist party there was the Russian Social Democratic Party formed in 1898 from a number of smaller groups.
Marx’s ideas in the revolution in Russia was later challenged by Lenin,developing an ideology which has become known as Leninist-Marxism. -
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WWI
Was a global war mostly centered in Europe.
The Tripple Entente powers that were the winners where: Great Britain , France and Russia + Italy.
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Murder of Rasputin
The murder of Rasputin has become something of a legend.
There are very few facts between the night he disappeared and the day his corpse was discovered up from the river. -
March (February) revolution
Location: Petrograd, Russian Empire
Result: Abdication of Nicholas II, creation of the Russian Republic; establishment of dual power between the Provisional Government and the Petrograd Soviet.
It all stared when 90 000 textile workers went on strike in Russia protesting about the shortage of fuel and bread.
"Down with the Tsar" and "Down with the war" were sang by people on the street .The Tsar had banned protesting so he sent out the military to shoot the protesters. -
March (February) revolution
Since the Czar had lost his army he offerer his position to his brother who refused and since his brother wouldn't take position the Tzar abdicated.
Several members of the Duma were chosen to set up a provisional government.
The Tzar and his family they were sent to house arrest and then they were executed.
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Russian Provisional Government
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October Revolution
The Bolsheviks staged an coup, engineered by Trotsky.
The October Revolution began in Petrograd (Russia) and quikcly spread through all the country.
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Creation of Soviet Russia
End of Russian Provisional Government, Russian Republic and dual power
Start of the Russian Civil War
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Civil War in Russia
It was a multi-party war in the former Russian Empire immediately after the Russian Revolutions of 1917.
Location:
Former Russian Empire, Mongolia, Tuva, Persia
Result:
Victory for the Red Army in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, South Caucasus, Central Asia, Tuva, and Mongolia;
Victory for pro-independence movements in Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland
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Establishment of the Soviet Union; Independence of Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland -
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Vladimir Lenin
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Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
It was a peace treaty between the new Bolshevik and the Central powers.
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk brought about the end of the war between Russia and Germany in 1918.
The German were reminded of the harshness of Brest-Litovsk when they complained about the severity of the Treaty of Versailles signed in June 1919.
Though in a weak position, the Bolsheviks stated that they desired "peace without annexations or indemnities," meaning an end to the fighting without loss of land or reparations. -
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NEP
The New Economy Policy was an economic policy of Soviet Russia proposed by Vladimir Lenin who called it state capitalism.
The NEP represented a more capitalism-oriented economic policy, deemed necessary after the Russian Civil War , to support the economy of the country, which was almost ruined.
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Joseph Stalin
Was the leader of the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953.
Stalin played a decisive role in the 1921 Red Army invasion of Georgia.
Stalin's actions in Georgia created a desagreement with Lenin, who believed that all the Soviet states should stand equal.
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USSR
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was established in 1922 and dissolved in 1991 it was the first state to be based on Marxist socialism.
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Trotsky into exile
His first station in exile was at Büyükada off the coast of Constantinople, Turkey, where he stayed for the next four years. He was at risk from the many former White Army officers in the city, who had opposed the Bolshevik Revolution but he had bodyguaards.
He wrote prolifically in exile, penning several key works, including his History of the Russian Revolution and The Revolution Betrayed , a critique of the Soviet Union under Stalinism.
