1. Russians long term problems caused a revolution in 1974.
2. Alexander the second was one of the strictest leaders Russian had ever had.
3. With the industrialization of Russia, they began to have new problems and with that they elected a new leader. Vladimir Lenin.
4. On January 22, 1905, workers began to protest for better working conditions and the leader, Nicholas the second, ordered a group to fire at them which killed several hundred people and became know as "Bloody Sunday".
5. Nicholas the second dragged Russia into World War 1 and they became huge in debt, when he went to help he left his wife in charge of the government and she turned to Rasputin to help make decisions, but then was later killed.
6. A group of protesters make Nicholas abandon his throne and later they executed his family, then Russia changed it government to "provisional government".
7. The Russians were afraid of Lenin and the Bolsheviks coming back because they thought they would stir up unrest and hurt the efforts of Russian beating Germany.
8. A army of factory works came together and called themselves the Bolshevik Red Guards, and they took over the government offices and arrested the leaders.
9. Lenin ordered that all the farm land be split up between the peasants, the factories would be ran by the workers, stop all fighting and begin peace-talks, and then signed the "Treaty of Brest-Litovsk" and Russia turned a lot of the land over to Germany.
10. The Whit Army was formed to defeat the Bolsheviks Red Army, after 14 million Russians died, a famine followed and it showed the Bolsheviks could seize power and maintain it.
11. The Russian Revolution was much like the French and American Revolutions.
12. Lenin started a small-scale version of capitalism called NEP, and the government still kept control of the kept control of major industries, banks, and means of communication, but it let some small factories, businesses, and farms operate under private ownership
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