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2 days ago · The Russian Civil War was a multi-party civil war in the former Russian Empire sparked by the overthrowing of the social-democratic Russian Provisional Government in the October Revolution, as many factions vied to determine Russia's political future.
2 days ago · After the February Revolution of 1917 ousted the tsar and established a Provisional Government, Lenin returned to Russia, issued his "April Theses", and led the October Revolution, in which the Bolsheviks overthrew the regime.
1 day ago · After the Bolsheviks seized power in the October Revolution of 1917 and established a one-party state under the Communist Party, Stalin joined its governing Politburo. Serving in the Russian Civil War before overseeing the Soviet Union's establishment in 1922, he rose to leader of the country following Lenin's death in 1924.
3 days ago · Orlando Figes, A People’s tragedy: the Russian Revolution 1891-1924, London, 1996. Christopher Read, From Tsar to Soviets: the Russian People and their Revolution 1917-1921, London 1996. W.H.Chamberlin, The Russian Revolution, (2 vols.), New York, 1965. The first edition was published in 1935.
5 days ago · Military defeats turned society against the court and government; the economic crisis of the war radicalized the working class; and through the Tsarist army peasants were exposed to new outlooks on the world, to new technologies and to the ideas of the revolutionaries. Early days of World War One in Russia. Film 90953.
3 days ago · Answer. Verified. 381k + views. Hint - The October Revolution happened in October 1917. It was led by the Bolshevik Party against the largely unpopular Provisional Government which had come into power after the February Revolution. The revolution was centred in Petrograd, the then capital of Russia.
5 days ago · In 1914 Russia entered the First World War and in February and October 1917 there were revolutions in the country itself. Russia no longer was a monarchy. In October the Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, managed to seize power.
