Why was there Revolution in Russia in March 1917? There were many reasons for a revolution in Russia in March 1917. ... 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. ... Moscow decided to join in the revolution. ...

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The Russian provisional government was put into place after the long Tsarist regime in 1917, but was ousted after only eight months, once the Bolsheviks took power after the October Revolution. ... The Russian Civil War was fought between the Bolshevik Red Army and the Anti-Bolshevik White Army. The Bolsheviks eventually defeated the White Army and became the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. ... Ultimately, the combined effects of turmoil resulting from World War I, the Bolshevik Revolution, and the creation of the USSR had a significant impact of the film industry in Russia. ... After the...

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The most popular view on the origins of the Cold War would be considered to lay in the policies of the World War II, others would say that the mistrust between the two started with the Bolshevik revolution in Russia and communists gaining power. ... The Bolsheviks seize power in the "October" Revolution in 1917. ... Therefore, we could argue that the US primarily and the West as a whole were very suspicious and sometimes paranoid about Russia as soon as it has overthrew its Tsar, made a revolution and became a Soviet Union. ... Therefore, the Bolsheviks sign a separate peace treaty with ...

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Revolution in Russia (1917-1918) Summary The Great War dragged on from 1914 through 1917 with little change. ... Though out of chronological order, we will treat the impact of the Russian Revolution on World War I first. ... Seeds of the Russian Revolution, however, had been sown years before. ... Resulting in the deaths of scores of Russian workers and their wives, Bloody Sunday, as it came to be called, may have been the proximate cause of the Russian Revolution. ... Lenin and Leon Trotsky, the radical Bolsheviks gained a majority in the soviets and called for the violent overthrow ...

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The conditions in Germany at this time existed to enable such a revolution to take place. ... This radicalisation culminated in the formation of the Munich Soviet Republic, which formed eighteen months after the Soviet Bolsheviks seized power. ... They wanted to start a nationalist revolution in Bavaria, and let it spread all over Germany. ... Hitler and the Nazis eventually robbed a bank, started a revolution and incited murder, but Hitler only ever served nine months in prison. ... However, the revolution had already begun for the Nazis. ...

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Later buried, Rasputin's corpse was exhumed and burned by the mob during the February Revolution of 1917 (Yefimovich). ... The revolutionary Bolsheviks used this opportunity and seized the power with the help of a revolution (Fuhrman T)....

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As the nation neared revolution and civil war Hitler skillfully rode national emotions. ... Using this as a pretext to claim that Germany was threatened by a Bolshevik coup, Hitler issued a presidential decree "for the Protection of the People and the State." ...

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Loss of territory, massive casualties and confusion at home were the main reasons for the Second Russian Revolution in February 1917. ... There, on July 16, 1918, the Romanovs and their servants were executed by the Bolsheviks. ... His reign was one of continual trouble: Witte's reforms causing protesting, war with Japan, 1905 revolution, Rasputin's influence on the family, World War I, and finally the Revolution of 1917, forcing his abdication. ...

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There was much paranoia amongst the middle class about a similar revolution to that of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia taking place. ... World War One was inevitably a period of great unrest in Britain as was the period of time shortly after with revolutions abroad, the disruption of family life and inflation all adding to social pressures. ...

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