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here is an image of some red gaurds of russia. they were a very powerful scource of military as explained in the end of the notes.

Russia at War Early Defeats · Aug 1914, 2 big Russian armies attack germany · Russia outnumberd them but were much worse equipt · Battle of Tannanberg and Masurian Lakes/ russaian armies were wiped out. · By end of the year Russia had lost 1 mill men

The collapse of the economy · 1915 russian economy began collapse · lack of workers · 15.5 mil taken into the army · 600 factories had to close

dark forces destroying throne · tsar nic left petograd · bad decision because alex was undure ratsputin influence · for 16 months tis remains · little ammo · many rumors about alexan and ratsputin flew around · said there were dark forces destroying there throne. · People were freezing and rady for rev

Rev march 1917 march · 7th20000 locked outside and angry · 8th 50 fac and 90000 workers no job o little bread · 9th 200000 strike · 10th 250000 no newspaper or transpor · 11duma sent telegram to tsar · 12mutiny of the army · 13th tsar to duma said share power · 14 no army support

provisional government 2 new govern · 12 men comitee called provisional · Petrograd soviet · Order 1 saud armies must set up committees for ammunition arms and equiptment

Lenin and april these · In exil in switz · petrograd 200km away · Lenin go there 16 apr 1917 and made speech · April these · Three days of rioting called the july days · Troops then broke up mobs killing 400

Kornilov revolt · Kerensky was prime minister of priv · Believed Russia needed a strong man · Had best rebel troops in Russia · Set up red gaurds · Street weaponry was increased · Were now more power than ever(bol)

The bol revolution State of Russia 1917 · Peasents were taking land · 2000 farms killed landlords · sent sold to kill them which delayed crops · now in winter famine · thousands leaving army every week

November rebellion · lenin went to Petrograd out of hiding · set up headquaters in smolny institute · red gaurds armed nov 6th to take control of Petrograd · povincial HQ guarded by cadets and women battelion · blank fired at the winter palace · the redgaurds took over without a fight · not bol controlled

Summary Ratsputain and Alexandra had much control over the empire. This was a bad decision and eventually caused the to loose power. Was then a republic and finally the red gaurds took control of all.

Questions In what way did Rasputin have power? When did the real revolution began to happen and what caused it? What was so important about march 1917? Who were the red gaurds? Who was lenin?