RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
MAJOR EVENTS IN PRE REVOLUTION RUSSIA
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He steps down, quits as ruler.
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He refuses to live in the palace.
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He passes the throne to someone else to rule.
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He calls an election.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Abdicate is most often used to describe a head of state or member of a royal family voluntarily renouncing a position. It may also refer to the act of failing to fulfill a duty a responsibility.
Detailed explanation-2: -abdicate verb (KING/QUEEN) [ I or T ] If a king or queen abdicates, he or she makes a formal statement that he or she no longer wants to be king or queen: King Edward VIII abdicated (the British throne) in 1936.
Detailed explanation-3: -to renounce or relinquish a throne, right, power, claim, responsibility, or the like, especially in a formal manner: The aging founder of the firm decided to abdicate. verb (used with object), ab·di·cat·ed, ab·di·cat·ing.
Detailed explanation-4: -Abdication is the formal act of stepping down from something, especially a king giving up the throne. An abdication is a type of resignation. When a king-or another person in power-gives up that position, they abdicate. Such an act is then called an abdication.
Detailed explanation-5: -On 10 December 1936, Edward VIII executed an Instrument of Abdication which was given legal effect the following day, when Edward gave Royal Assent to His Majesty’s Declaration of Abdication Act, by which Edward VIII and any children he might have were excluded from succession to the throne.