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Rasputin Assassinated
Rasputin a man who was believed to be holy was murdered on 1916 by nobles who wanted to stop the effect he had on the Romanov family, who believed him because they though he had cured their son's disease. The nobles feed him poisoned food and gave him poisoned wine. When he ate and drank all, there were no signs of the poison affecting him. He was then shot with a revolver. He was still alive but the was shot multiple times, then he was then beaten and finally he was thrown into a frozen river. -
The March Revolution
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Petrograd Soviets formed
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Czar Nicholas II abdicates
Czar Nicholas the II was forced to abdicate his thrown by Petrograd insurgents. Workers And other people joined strikes to make the Czar abdicate. He was not really prepared to govern and he didn't pay much attention to the problems that Russia faced. He had no choice but to do it. After his abdication a provincial government was installed. -
Lenin shipped by Germans to Russia
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Russian Civil War
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Bolshevik Revolution seized the Winter Palace
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Communist Control over Russia
The comunist control over Russia whent from 1918 to 1921 -
lenin signs Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
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Royal Family Murdered
The Romanov family, Czar Nicholas, his wife Alexandra and their five children were executed by Yakov Yurovosky, who was a Bolshevik. They were taken to a cellar, were they were trapped, with other four servants, when a group of armed people came in and started shooting them. The first one to be killed was Nicholas followed by his son Alexei. The rest of them were shot.
The people who survived the shooting were stabbed, with the blade at the end of a riffle, until they died.
