1. Bolshevik Revolution Putin the Red into Russia

2. Precursors Rev. of 1905: People are starving and angry (Duma) World War I: Czar Nicholas II uses it as distraction WW1: Russia loses millions of people and the population looks to revolutionaries for relief Feb. Rev: Revolutionaries decide to stay in the war after removing the Czar=fatal mistake

3. 1917:Bolshevik Rev. Vladimir Lenin: Him and his followers (Reds) stage their own revolution and after seizing power fight a civil war with the Whites for 3 years Reds=Communists

4. Effects Russia withdraws from WWI Russia becomes the poster country for Communist government Russia becomes United Soviet Socialist Republic (USSR)

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