HISTORY
WORLD WAR I AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
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The Cabinet
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The Cannon
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The Arc
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The Duma
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Detailed explanation-1: -In 1711 Peter the Great transferred its functions to the Governing Senate.
Detailed explanation-2: -The October Revolution was actually the second Russian revolution of 1917. In March, revolutionaries led by the Petrograd soviet, or council, violently overthrew Czar Nicholas II, the monarch whose family had ruled Russia for more than three centuries.
Detailed explanation-3: -The State Duma in the Russian Empire On 6 August 1905, Emperor Nicholas II issued a Manifesto on Establishment and Organisational Rules of one of the parliament chambers – the State Duma. The State Council of the Russian Empire became the second chamber. The Duma should have exercised only quasi-legislative function.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Duma formed a provisional government on March 12. A few days later, Czar Nicholas abdicated the throne, ending centuries of Russian Romanov rule.