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1917
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An estimated 90,000 women marched through the streets. These women were tired, hungry, and angry because they worked long hours in miserable conditions and wanted change.
February 23, 1917
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Women workers in Petrograd left their factories and entered the protest
February 25, 1917
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The city of Petrograd was basically shut down no one was working
March 1, 1917
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It was obvious to everyone except the Czar himself that the czar's rule was over
March 2, 1917
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It was made official when Czar Nicholas II abdicated
September 1917
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Lenin believed the Russian people were ready for another revolution
october 10, 1917
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A secret meeting of the Bolsheviks party leaders was held
October 25, 1917
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The revolution began. Troops loyal to the Bolsheviks took control of the telegraph, power station, strategic bridges , etc.
1917
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The Provisional Government abolished the death penalty, granted amnesty for all political prisoners and those in exile, ended religious and ethnic discrimination, and granted civil Liberties
1917
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The former Duma members formed a Provisional Government which officially ran the country
1917
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Lenin shocked everyone by denouncing the Provisional Government and calling for a new revolution
1917
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Lenin worked ceaselessly over the following few months and eventually people began to really listen. Soon many wanted "Peace, Land, Bread"
April 3, 1917
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Lenin arrived in Petrograd at the Finland Station. Tens of thousands of workers and soldiers had come to the station to greet Lenin
1918
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There was no extra food without private land ownership, farmers began to grow just enough to produce for thermoses; there was no incentive to grow more
June 1918
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Russia broke out in civil war. It was the Whites against the Reds
July 16, 1918 - July 17, 1918
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Czar Nicholas, his wife, their children, the family dog, three servants and the family doctor were all woken up, taken to the basement and shot