He grew up in a time when war was the accepted norm of Russia. ... Secondly, he would defend a country if revolutionaries were trying to break the bondage of conservatism. ... An excellent example of a country that was in disarray, due to revolutionary uprisings, was the debacle with the Polish State. ... No other war better exemplifies Nicholas I infatuation with Orthodoxy than the Crimean War. ... In 1821 Nicholas I entered a conflict that had both religious and revolutionary significance. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Born into poverty as Joseph Vissarionovich Djugashvili, Stalin became involved in revolutionary politics as a young man. Stalin joined up with the Bolshevik revolutionaries. ... At the start of World War II, Stalin formed an alliance with the German dictator Adolf Hitler. ... After a bloody war, Germany was defeated. ...

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A revolutionary assassinated Stolypin in 1911. ... Two revolutionaries murdered Rasputin in December of 1916, after being poisoned, shot, and drowned. ... During World War I, when the Allies bullied Russia to get back into the war after their first retreat, they seemed to think of Russia as cowards. ... If losing a war isn't enough to give people of a nation an inferiority complex, nothing is. ... No one believed the war was a noble cause to fight for. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

There were seven main opposition groups with 3 predominant ones, - the Mensheviks, the Bolsheviks, and the Social Revolutionaries. These three groups all wanted to get rid of the Tsar, but the Mensheviks weren't prepared to use force, whereas the Bolsheviks and Social Revolutionaries were. ... As the First World War continued into 1917, ordinary Russian people too were becoming downhearted, as their situation was getting worse. The army had been badly defeated in the war with more than two million killed, 2 million injured and a further 4 million taken prisoner. As the Tsar was the head o...

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At this time, war with Japan was impending. ... The defeat in this war and the expense it incurred were direct causes of the revolution which occured just a few weeks later. ... Second, it split the revolutionary front, reconciling the most cautious elements among the moderates, who had no heart for violence, with a government which promised to end the abuses of autocracy. For the first time in the history of Russia, millions of people in the cities and in the villages took part in a revolutionary movement. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Soldiers returning back from the war against Japan rebelled. ... People wanted Russia to stop the war. ... With Petrograd in the hands of revolutionaries, Nicholas had no choice but to abdicate the throne. ... When the Revolution was reignited in 1917, the Revolutionaries had more support than the tsar and the determination to accomplish their goals. ... Lenin quickly pulled Russia out of World War I. ...

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"It is history that provides a stimulating new approach to an understanding of pre-Revolutionary Russia." ... Alexandra began to trust his opinion on an ever-widening range of issues, to the point where he was advising her, while Nikolai was at war, on the hiring and firing of government ministers. ... Another event that troubled Nicholas" reign was a humiliating war with Japan. ... Even greater losses, however, were suffered in World War I (the second war during Nicholas" reign), which Russia entered on the Allied side in 1914. ... His reign was one of continual trouble: Witte's reforms ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The Social Revolutionaries rallied the support of the peasants. ... When war with Japan was impending, Nicholas saw it as an opportunity to rally loyalty to the empire once more. ... The defeat in this war and the expense it incurred were direct causes of the revolution which occured just a few weeks later. ...

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Due to over ambitious wars and extravagant spending on courts, Louis XVI and his predecessor had successfully bankrupted France. The Seven Years War economically drained the country and her losses were considerable in human and territorial terms. ... The revolution was virtually over by this time but France was still at war with Europe and was subject to many intended coups. ... In Russia, many experienced revolutionaries set about spreading their message to the people. ... During the Civil War Lenin proclaimed to one doubter, "Do you really think we will be victorious without using ...

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These classes represent the "oppressor and oppressed", and the struggle between them eventually results either in "a revolutionary reconstitution of society at large (Marxist.net.) ... In trying to do this; a so-called, Bread war broke out with several kulaks, wealthy, rural landowners who were against the communist party during the revolution, revolts throughout Russia. After the Civil war, Russia was hit with a devastating famine. ...

• Word Count: 998
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• Grade Level: High School