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1. Timeline Major events of the period of war and revolution
2. Map: Russian Empire Russian boundaries on the eve of war, 1914
3. Poster: Russian Society Caricature of class exploitation, 1900
4. Photo: Tsar and Family Nicholas II, Alexandra, and their children
5. Photo: Peasant Family The everyday life of Russian peasants
6. Song: "Dubinushka, 'The Cudgel'" Manual laborer's work song
7. German Declaration of War on Russia August 1, 1914
8. Poster: Russia as St. George The heroic struggle against Germany
9. Photo: Russian Officers Army officers taking tea
10. Photo: Russian Soldiers' Mealtime Common soldiers at war
11. Photo: Waiting for Dead Men's Rifles Shortage of military supplies for soldiers
12. Photo: Blessing of Russian Wounded The costs of war
13. Photo: Retreat From Warsaw Civilian victims of war
14. Photo: Refugees From Brest-Litovsk Families dislocated by front lines
15. Poster: Portrait of Nicholas II The tsar as military commander
16. Map: Eastern Front 1914-1916 Front lines of war
17. Photo: Rasputin and Coterie Rasputin with admirers
18. Miliukov's Speech to the Duma November 14, 1916
19. Photo: Bread Line The impact of war on the Russian home front
20. Photo: Down With the Monarchy Soldiers opposed to the tsar
21. Photo: In Front of the Duma Street politics
22. Soviet Order No. 1 March 1/14, 1917
23. Abdication of Nicholas II The end of autocracy
24. Formation and Program of the Provisional Government March 2/15, 1917
25. Petrograd Soviet's Call to Peoples of the World March 14/27, 1917
26. Photo: The Abdication Informing soldiers of the tsar's abdication
27. Telegram From the American Consulate in Moscow March 20, 1917
28. Photo: Removal of Royal Emblems The shift in symbolism after the tsar's fall
29. Song: "Workers' Marseillaise" Russian variant of the French revolutionary anthem
30. Miliukov's Note on War Aims April 18/May 1, 1917
31. Lenin's "April Theses" Lenin's radical challenge to the Provisional Government
32. Oath of a Revolutionary Volunteer and a Female Volunteer's Letter to the Minister of War
33. Photo: Womens' Battalion of Death Women training for military service
34. Photo: "July Days" Street fighting in Petrograd
35. Song: "The Warsaw Song" Anthem of the revolutionary labor movement
36. Song: "Boldly, Comrades in Step" Bolshevik fighting song
37. Lenin's Letter to Central Committee Members Demand for an immediate seizure of power
38. Photo: Red Guards Marching to Smolny Supporters of Soviet Power
39. Lenin's Call for Peace/Decree on Land Statement to the Second All-Russia Congress of Soviets
40. Photo: Red Funeral Funeral procession for revolutionary martyrs
41. Song: "You Fell Victim" Bolshevik funeral hymn
42. Song: "Internationale" First anthem of the Soviet state
43. Poster: "Proletarians of All Countries, Unite!" Raising support for the Revolution
44. Poster: "Cossack: With whom are you? Us or Them?" Demanding soldier's allegiance to Soviet Power
45. Treaty of Brest-Litovsk March 3, 1918
46. Map: Treaty of Brest-Litovsk Russia's territorial losses as a result of the treaty
47. Poster: Lev Trotsky Slaying the Counter-Revolutionary Dragon New symbols of the Revolution
