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The document summarizes the events leading up to the Russian Revolution. It describes the oppressive system of serfdom that existed in pre-revolutionary Russia, as well as unrest that began with Russia's loss in the Russo-Japanese War in 1905 and continued during World War I due to food shortages and military failures. Growing discontent led Czar Nicholas II to abdicate in early 1917, though a provisional government failed to stabilize Russia. This created an opening for Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks to seize power and establish a communist Soviet Union later that year.
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- After the 1905 revolution, Tsar Nicholas II offered some political concessions to appease the growing revolutionary sentiment, but these were seen as insufficient and reactive rather than voluntary. If further pressure could force more concessions, some concluded that more may bring down the entire government.
- In the aftermath, the Soviet had achieved little in terms of results. Lenin and Trotsky went back into exile believing the revolution in Russia would not occur. There was some repression with executions, which increased dramatically in subsequent years.
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