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a small Marxist group led by Lenin, sought to change life in Russia through revolution, aka Red Guards
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Bolsheviks
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leader of Bolsheviks, who promised "land, peace, bread" and started the NEP
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Vladimir Lenin
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a priest in Russia who healed many people and took advantage of women, people think he is corrupt and immortal
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Grigory Rasputin
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Russia's legislature ordered to disband, leading to the Czar abdicating
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Duma
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what Nicholas II did to step down as czar after ordering the duma to disban
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abdicate
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leader of the provisional government
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Aleksandr Kerensky
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belief, aka Bolshevism, where the Bolsheviks planned to abolish private property and enforce social equality (communism)
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Marxism-Leninism
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Bolshevik group led by Leon Trotsky, who fought a civil war against the whites, but didn't trust the western powers
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Red Guard
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1917 revolution, Red Guards vs. prov. gov. when Kerensky's government collapsed and Lenin becomes leader
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October Revolution
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leader of the Red Guards, who was sent to make peace with the treaty of brest, after being taken over by Lenin.
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Leon Trotsky
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army aided by allies against the red guards because they will get back in the war
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White Army
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plan by Lenin that permitted some capitalist activity, including peasants selling their food at a profit
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New Economic Policy
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country formed in 1922, when Russia reunited with neighboring lands that had been part of the Russian empire before 1917
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Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
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