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Overall the economic distress provided a catalyst for the February revolution to take place in 1917, due to the majority of peasants at the time living in poverty, which was partly caused by the policies ...

First, the student should approach this question by organising it chronologically in terms of events. For example, they could start with the earliest popularly acknowledged cause, that being the Bolshevik...

By the time Alexander II had signed the Treaty of Paris in early 1856, ending the Crimean War, Russia had proven to be far less of a Great Power than their reputation presented. Russia had been defeated a...

Workers were greatly affected by the Nazis between the years 1933 and 1939. They were affected because the Nazis wanted to keep the workers happy and satisfied so they would not revolt against them, becau...

Following the Bolshevik seizure of power in 1917, It can be debated to what extent Lenin stuck to his original ideological aims for Russia during his attempt to stabilise the country. On the one hand, it ...