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| the title given the monarch of russia |
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| a peasant in tsarist russia |
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| the last tsar of Russia; overthrown and executed in 1917 |
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| wife of Nicholas the Second; executed along with Nicholas the Second and their children |
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| son of tsar and heir to the throne, he suffered from hemophilia and waz extremely ill for most of his life |
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| youngest daughter of the tsar. it was rumored that she had escaped death and made her way to Britain |
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| the religious monk who had great influence on the tsar and his family espcially the tsarina, when they became convinced that he could help cure their son's hemophilia |
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| german economic philosopher who devoloped the philosophy of communism, he also believed there was trouble in society because of a friction between the wealthy and the poor |
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| the group of revolutionaries, led by Lenin, who overthrew the tsar in 1917 |
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| leader of the Bolsheviks, he lead the revolution against the tsar and became the leader of Russia when Nicholas the second was overthrown |
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| Brilliant assistant to Lenin. It was assumed he would take control when Lenin died in 1926, but he was forced out of the country by Stalin and assassinated in Mexico City when an intruder broke into his hotel room and hit him in the head with an axe |
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| brutal leader of Russia who took control when Lenin died. he renamed the country The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ( U S S R ) and arrested or killed millions of citizens who disagreed with him. |
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| Union of Soviet Socialist Republics |
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| the political unification of Russia and surrounding republics into one country |
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