At the time when Bolsheviks took the power in Russia during the Revolution of 1917, the nation was still occupied with the First World War. ... The meeting was opened in December 1917 in the town of Brest Litovsk in the former Poland (now Belarus) where the Germans had their main office ("The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk." ... In the revolution of 1917 the left Socialites Revolutionaries formed the government and had more support than Bolsheviks, wanted to appeal to Russian people by becoming free fighters against aggressors. They considered this as the most ideal method of causing communist revolu...

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The dystopian novel "Animal Farm," published in August 1945, is an allegory of the Russian Revolution. The animals and the events in George Orwell's novel parallel the characters and incidents of the Russian Revolution. Orwell laments that the 1917 Russian Revolution resulted in a government more totalitarian and oppressive than the one it overthrew. ... In 1917, the Russian Revolution took place. ... George Orwell and other supporters of the Russian Revolution were disillusioned. ...

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The United States was reluctant in entering the war but ultimately numerous events led the US to declare war on Germany in 1917. ... The worries of not receiving the loans back led the Americans to declare war on Germany on 1917 to help the Allied Powers and lead them to victory. ... Woodrow Wilson declared war on Germany on April 2, 1917 and in his war message said the Americans were joining the war "to make the world safe for democracy." ... A trigger may have been the Russian Revolution. Since Wilson wanted "to make the world safe for democracy" and Russia was governed by a czar bothered ...

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In 1917 Germany was suffering severe hunger / starvation due to the British blockade. ... Wilson was aided in his desire to arm merchant ships by one contingent factor, the February Revolution in Russia. This revolution overthrew the Russian autocracy and promised democratic reforms. This meant that the Allied cause could now be seen as totally democratic and therefore in agreement with America's own views this improved Russian relations with the U.S. ... Without this contingent factors it is hard to say whether the U.S would have entered the war, I personally believe that America would h...

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Marc Chagall was born July 7, 1887 in Vitsyebsk, Russia. ... The war brings him back to native Russia where he marries Bella. In 1917, he becomes police chief of the Art schools and melts the Academy of Vitebsk which he asks artists like Lissitsky and Malevitch to take part. ... It is in this friendly entourage, after disillusions of the Russian revolution, that Chagall recovers to paint: from 1923 to 1927, it joins again with its past by carrying out new versions of works left in Paris before the war and that it believed lost, like the Merchant of cattle, 1922-1923 (museum of Grenoble.) ...

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He would read literature written by Karl Marx, a German political philosopher, and soon he would join the revolution called Russian Marxism. ... Stalin would continue a cycle of getting arrested and excelled to Siberia eight times between 1902 and 1917. ... During the first world war, moral was low in the Russian Army. ... Their resentment peaked in February 1917, when a group of soldiers took over the town of St. ... Stalin didn't really have much to do with the revolution, he wrote a few editorials for a popular Russian newspaper, but his contributions where minimal at best. ...

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Russia lost and tensions grew between the two. ... The western powers looked on with horror at the Bolshevik Revolution. ... Wilson had initially kept the United States neutral in the Great War but in 1917 he proclaimed, that the "world must be kept safe for democracy." ... These communist countries became satellites of Russia, nothing more than provinces of Russia. ... To Westerners, this Russian advance exceeded their worst fears. ...

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Another event that occurred during World War I, and continued in the immediate years following the war, was the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the successful formation of a Communist or Socialist state in Russia. The creation of the Soviet Union and its communist government led to a fear in the U.S. that communism could spread in America and the U.S. government would be overthrown just as the Russian government and its Tsar (the Russian King) had been replaced (Tsar Nicholas II was eventually murdered by the Communists along with his entire family). ...

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The Russian Revolution of 1917- the Russian civil war, is commonly traced with the ideological warfare of the people stemmed from the influence of Marxism-Leninism. ... Among others, the background factors to the outbreak of the Russian revolution were peasant poverty, low wage of industrial workers that forced them to extreme hardship, an intelligentsia bent on reform. ... There is a point to ponder that there were massacres and bloodsheds before and during the revolution, but there were no such thing as ethnic element which can be held responsible for those st...

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Russia, who was involved in the war at the time, was forced to secede from the conflict in 1917. The Bolshevik Revolution, headed by Vladimir Lenin, had seized power after Czar Nicholas II abdicated on March 15, 1917 (2). ... The long era of the Czar in Russia had ended. ... Inspired by the events which transpired in Russia in 1917, the communists wanted a China that focused on the proletariat, or working class (1). ...

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After the revolution in Russia in 1917 (when the Soviets gained power from the cruel Czars) the control of power in Russia was taken from the slim minority by the workers (for which Communism freed) to make life better and to keep the terrors of WWI from happening again. ...

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Following almost a century of alliance, Americans and Russians disagreement came to the front line when in 1917 the Communists seized power, and established the Soviet Union. ... The new Cuban government, under Fidel Castro confiscated private property, sent agents to initiate revolutions in several Latin American countries, and established diplomatic and economic ties with leading socialist powers, such as USSR In June Congress had passed legislation enabling President Dwight D. to take retaliatory steps against Cuba. ... When it came to Communism the U.S. has almost completed its plan with t...

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The success of Drebbel's submarine paved the way for many inventors to undertake the concept of underwater travel; but it was not until the American Revolution in 1776, that the submarine was used as a weapon of war. ... The United States was supplying subs to Japan and Russia. ... According to Horton, by 1917 the German U-boats were sinking about 300,000 tons of merchant shipping a month. ...

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The region of Southeast Asia was chocked full of natural resources. Some of these natural resources included coffee, tea and spices. These resources are what originally brought western countries to the area. Many of the top countries in Europe and Asia wanted to conquer parts of this region. Lockard...

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This trait that allowed him to use circumstances to help attain his goals was seen in 1920 with Italy, and would continue after he had formulated his program with such decisions to intervene in Spain and sign non-aggression pacts with hereditary enemies in Poland and Russia.(9) The Italian alliance by itself did not amount to very much, but it at least provided a basis for an outline of foreign policy. ... On July 27, 1920, in line with his racial dogma Hitler stated: "An alliance between Russia and Germany can only come into existence if the Jews are removed from power." ... Tho...

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In 1917 he proclaimed American's entrance into World War I a crusade to make the world "safe for democracy." ... The Treaty of 1814 was concluded between France on the one hand and Britain, Russia, Austria, and Prussia on the other after the first abdication of NApoleon I. ... Below his country, the Mexican Revolution was in full swing. ...

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