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Alexander III
He was the empeor of Russia from 13th March 1881 until his death in 1894.
He was very conservative.
He continue with the liberal reforms os his father, Alexander II
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Abolishment of Serfdom in Russia
New laws were created that said that all kind of classes could own their lands, a right that was only aviable for nobles. Many citizens force these situations and finally Tsar Alexander II abolished serfdom in Russia in 1861. -
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Nicholas II
He was the last empeor of Russia and he ruled between the years 1894 and 1917. He was the heir of Alexander III.
He provoked a war with Japan because he encouraged the expansion of Russia in Manchuria.
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Vladimir Lenin
He was a radical Russian communist revolutionary, the leader of the RUSSIAN COMMUNIST PARTY and the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution. Under his power the Russian Empire was replaced by the Soviet Union. His ideas were based on Marxism.
He came to the power by a effectively "coup d' etat". Three yaers of civil war followed. -
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Joseph Stalin
******* On exile or expelled people that were against the Soviets. A great amount Red Army Generals were killed thanks to these idea. Stalin had two main battles :
1. Against Germany when they (Germans) broke the non-agression pact. The germans made an invasion of the Soviet Union.
2. Cold War, USSR had also develop a nuclear weapon and they were very dangerous. Stalin wanted to spread his Communism Projects among the world. -
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Joseph Stalin
Stalin was the leader of the leader of the Soviet Union from the middle of 1920s until his dead. Stalin camed to the power when he was named general secretary of the Central Comittee in 1922. He consolidated the power that Lenin left. He also became the leader of the Soviet Union.
He replaced NEP to establish a command economy, which consisted on changing the USSR into an insdustrial power. Stalin organised the famous GREAT PURGE that consisted on ******* -
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Trans-Siberian
The Trans- Siberian Railway connects Moscow vith the East of Russia and the sea of Japan. Is the longest railway in the world (9,289km).
It was built thanks to the Russian Government that were supported by Tsar Alexander III and Tsar Nicholas II, his son. -
Russo-Japanese War
The Russo-Japanese War was a conflict between Russia and Japan. The two countries wanted to gain the dominance of Korea and Manchuria. In 1904, the Japanese attacked the Russian fleet at Port Arthur before the formal declaration of war was received in Moscow. The two forces fought in Korea and in the Sea of Japan, but the Japanese won the battles. In 1905 the two countries lose economic costs and the war ends. -
Division of Marxists into two groups
It happened when the existence of class struggle appear. -
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World War I
Russia was in a conflict in the east against Germany. In the winter of 1916-1917 Germany defeated Russia.
Russia entered at the end of the war in the League of Nations (Wilson most important point) but they left the organisation early due to their civil conflict. -
Murder of Rasputin
Grigory Efimovich Rasputin was a peasant who had powers of healing and prediction. Peasants could not have these amount of important powers and several members of the aristocracy attempted to him three times. The two first did not have the best solution but at the night of the 16-17 December 1916, Rasputin was killed. -
February Revolution
This event was caused when Tsar Nicholas II abdicated. These meant the end of the Romanov Dynasty. February Revolution was the period of time in which the Provisional Government replaced the Tsar. -
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Russian Provisional Government
These government replaced the institution of the Council of Ministers of Russia after the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II.
The two main blunders of the government were:
1. Refused to give land to poor peasants in the rural areas.
2. Keep Russia in the WW1. -
October Revolution
The October Revolution overthrew the provisional government and gave the power to the local soviets (the Bolsheviks). The revolution was led by the Bolsheviks, who used their influence to organize the armed forces. The Provisional government located in Petrograd, was captured. -
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Russian Civil War
****** At the end of the conflict, many parts of the Russian Empire (Finland, Estonia, Poland...) start to have their own civil conflicts to gained their independence. The rest of the former Russian Empire was consolidated into the Soviet Union. -
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Russian Civil War
The Russian Civil War was a strong conflict between the Bolshevik (socialism, red army) and allied forces (monarchism, capitalism... white army). Many nations, including the Allied Forces and the pro-Germans attack the Red Army but hey finally defeated the White Army of south Russia in Ukraine. The remain of the White Forces were beaten in Crimea in 1920.
Finally the Bolshevisks gained a complete victory and the establishment of Communism in Russia went ahead unchallenged. ****** -
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
On 3 March 1918 in Brest (Belarus) a treaty of peace was signed between the Bloshevik and the Central Powers (Germany, Bulgary and Austro-Hungary) after lots of days of negotiations. The trety was done thanks to the pression of Germany and to the emergence that the Soviet Union had due to the dameges that Russia had. The treaty consisted on a "world peace" among the agresive countries. -
USSR
After the Revolution in Russia, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) is established, comprising a confederation of Russia, Belorussia, Ukraine, and the Transcaucasian Federation. These new communist state was the successor of the Russian Empire and it was the first country based on Marxist socialism.
After it was established, the USSR continue growing until been one of the most powerful countries in the world. It was compossed of 15 nations. The USSR was finnaly disappearing in 1991. -
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NEP
The New Economic Policy was a policy of Soviet Russia proposed by Lenin. It was an idea based on ambition and imagination. It managed to keep a country out of chaos and drive it to the economic and industrial recovery. It created capitalism in a socialist state. -
Trotsky into exile
Trotsky was exiled from the Soviet Union in February 1929. He was in a lot of countries but any of them feet with him. Trotsky moved finally to Mexico. Then, Trotsky started to critic the Soviet Regime and Stalin (thet put him into exile). Finally he was killed by Ramon Mercader, an undercover agent. -
Bloody Sunday
Bloody Sunday was an event that hapenned in Northern Ireland (Derry). The event was organised by the people of the city, it was a procession. An amount of fourteen people died because they were shot by British Soldiers in a protest. The soldiers were part of the Parachute Regiment, "1 PARA"
