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Russian Revolution 1916-1921 by Maddie Bryant, Mikayla Klein and Hannah Gad.

"Communism is inevitable and unavoidable in the near future. It will take over the world." - Vladimir Lenin
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Czar Nicholas II began ruling in 1894. He was the last of the Romanov family to rule Russia. He was married to Czarina Alexandra, a German princess who was disliked by the Russians. The Czar lived in the Winter Palace in Petrograd (St. Petersburg). Their son Alexis was a hemophiliac who was healed by Grigori Rasputin, known as "The Mad Monk". Rasputin was thought to be evil and he was poisoned, beaten, and shot before he was drowned in the Neva River. In 1916, Czar Nicholas II took control of the army in World War I and the Petrograd Riots took place on March 8, 1917. The czar was abdicated on March 15, 1917. In 1917, Russia established the Provisional Government. This government was opposed by the Bolsheviks, who were a group of communists led by Vladimir Lenin. Lenin had promised to end the war quickly. Soviet councils were created. The Russian Army was getting smaller and smaller. The Bolsheviks held another revolution against the Provisional government, and once Lenin seized power, he signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. The Russian Civil War lasted three more years. Russians tried to overthrow the Communist government. The revolutionaries were the whites and the Bolsheviks were the reds. The Bolsheviks won the war and the Soviet Union was formed. In July of 1918, Lenin ordered the Czar's whole family to be assassinated. Lenin died on January 21st, 1924 and Joseph Stalin took power of Russia in 1928.

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__Terms __
 * war communism- in World War I Russia, government control of banks and most industries, the seizing of grainfrom peasants, and the centralizationof state administration under Communist control.
 * soviet- a Russian council composed of representatives from the workers and soldiers.
 * duma- the Russian legislative assembly
 * Bolsheviks- they began as a small faction of a Marxist party called the Russian Social Democrats, they were under the leadership of Vladimir Ilyinch Ulianov
 * hemophilia- is a deficiency in the ability of the blood to clot, Alexis, Czar Nicholas II only son had hemophilia and was always sick.
 * cheka-they were known as the new red secret police, they began a Red Terror aimed at the destruction of all those who opposed the new regime
 * Okhrana- was Czar's secret police that stamped out opposition to the Czar Censorship and control of the truth
 * bloody Sunday- on Sunday January 22, 1905 a protest of lack of food broke out infront of the Winter Palace."God save the Czar".
 * October Manifesto- Czar guarantees individual liberties and sets up a parliament that stopped the revolution of 1905, the leaders of that revolution were executed
 * Cossacks - were Czars elite guard that refused to shoot at the crowd in the streets, that were wanting food for their familys

 __<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">People __
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Grigori Rasputin- he was an uneducated Siberian peasant who claimed to be a holy man.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Czar Nicholas II- was an autocratic ruler who relied on the army and bureaucracy to hold up his regime
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Alexandra- she was Czar Nicholas II german born wife and she was a stubborn woman who had fallen under the influence of Grigori Rasputin
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">V.I. Lenin- On March 3, 1918 he signed the Treaty of Brest Litovsk with Germany and gave up eastern Poland, Ukraine, Finland, and Baltic provinces
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Alexander Kerensky- he was the provisional government that decided to carry on the war to preserve Russias honor
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Alexis- he was Czar Nicholas II and Alexandras only son, he was heir to the throne, but he had hemophilia
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Leon Trotsky- he was the commissar of the war,he reinstated the draft and insisted on rigid discipline.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Prince Felix- he was th eleader of the conspirators, he had Rasputin poisoned, beaten, shot and drowned in the Neva River
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Peter Stolypin- he was the Russian Prime Minister who had so many political opponents people hung that people called it Stolypins Neckties
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Anna Anderson- she was the woman who claimed that she was Anastasia, Czar Nicholas daughter, but a Dna test later done was prof that she was not Anastasia.

media type="custom" key="15408988" Links: [|The Russian Revolution] for more information on The Russian Revolution. [|Overview of Russian Revolution] for more information on the history of the Russian Revolution. [|Romanov Massacre] for more information on the Romanov Massacre. [|The October Manifesto] for more information on the October Manifesto. [|Murder of Rasputin] for more information on Rasputin's murder. [|Rasputin] for more information on Grigori Rasputin. [|Alexis: Hemophilia] for more information on Alexis Romanov's case of hemophilia. [|Czar Nicholas II] for more information on the last Czar of Russia. [|V.I. Lenin] for more information on Vladmir Lenin. [|The Romanov Family] for more information on the Czar's family.