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| Proletariat | the group of workers who would overthrow the czar and came to rule Russia
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| Bloody Sunday | January 22, 1905 200,000 workers and their famalies go to the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg with a petition asking for better working conditions, more personal freedom, and a elected national legislature however Nicholas II responded by massacring them
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| Bolsheviks | Supported a small number of revolutionaries willing to sacrifice anything for change
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| Gulags | Soviet network of forced labor camps used to terrorize opponents of the government and get cheap labor that happened between 1950 and 1955
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| Provisional Government | Temporary government formed by the Duma to rule until elections were held
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| Alexander Kerensky | Took control of the provisional government in February 1917 and made a bad decision to keep Russia in WWI costing him his support from the people
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| Nicholas II | Last czar of Russia; made a bad decision to take over the army with little experience
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| Abdictate | To renounce one's throne
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| Lenin | Leader of the Bolsheviks who's slogan is about peace, land and bread, organized Russia into many republics and helped with the New Economic Policy
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| Czar | Emperor of Russia before 1917
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| Communism | An economic system which all means of production are owned by the people, private property does not exist and all goods and services are shared equally
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| Totalitarian | government control over every aspect of public and private life
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| Great Purge | A campaign by Stalin being terror directed at anyone who helped threaten his power. Bolsheviks who helped stage the revolution were executed or sent to labor camps by the mid-1930s he changed the Soviet Union and made it and industrial and political power
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| Josef Stalin | Wanted to create a perfect Communism state in Russia making it so he has turn it into a totalitarian state
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| Five Year Plan | Plan for development by Stalin to increase the Soviet Union's economy by adding quotas to steel,oil,coal, and electricity as a result people had shortages of housing, food, clothing,etc
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| March Revolution | March 1917 woman textile workers in Petrograd lead a citywide strike with about 200,000 people flaring about shortages of bread and fuel, shooters began to side with the protesters, it was the revolution to bring down czarist rule
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| When did Alexander III rule? | 1881-1894
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| Nicholas II rule | 1894-1917
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| Alexander Kerensky rule | Feb 1917-Oct 1917
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| Lenin rule | 1917-1924
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| Stalin rule | 1924-1953
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