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- - - - the tsar had unlimited power and authority (he was considered to have a divine right to govern).
    - - agricultural land was owned by a wealthy minority and worked by a peasant majority.
    - - three-quarters of the population were peasants who lived in poverty and paid high taxes.
- - - - Russia and Japan fought for control of Manchuria.
    - - despite being forbidden, various political parties were created which opposed the tsar.
    - - they moved peacefully on the Winter Palace, the tsar's residence, to ask for improvements in working conditions and political reform.
      - The people responded with strikes and protests.
    - - in 1914 the Russian Empire took part in the First World War because it was allied with Great Britain and France.
- - - - to sign the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with Germany
      - to change the name of the Bolshevik party to the Communist Party
      - to found the Third International
      - to expropriate land and redistribute it