The Russian Revolution

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The Russian Revolution
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• RussiaTsardomAutocracy
• Largest country in world lacked infrastructure
• During WWI, supplies very slow to front.
  Millions of soldiers die b/c of no food/weapons
• Russian people have no food and supplies?rioting
  begins and Tsar Nicholas II steps down

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• Provisional Govt takes control and resembles
  democracy Bolsheviks emerge and call for Russian
  withdraw from WWI
• Lenin and Trotsky lead strikes and
  riots?overthrow Provisional Govt

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• Civil war breaks out anti-Bolsheviks aided by
  Allied Powers
• Bolsheviks win?establish The Soviet Union led by
  Vladmir Lenin (dictator)
• Bolsheviks sign Treaty of Brest-Litovsk w/
  Germany?Russias pulls out of WWI
• U.S. has biggest burden to win WWI for democracy