The Russian Revolution: October 1917

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In October 1917, the Bolsheviks under Lenin seized power in Russia, ending centuries of tsarist rule and establishing the world's first communist state.

The Collapse of TsarismBy 1917, Tsarist Russia was collapsing under the weight of catastrophic losses in World War I, where nearly two million Russian soldiers had died and millions more were captured or wounded. Food shortages in the cities triggered mass protests in Petrograd (St Petersburg) in Fe...

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