In March 1918, the new communist government in Russia signed a treaty with Germany, extricating the Russians from the conflict entirely. ... Petersburg, Russia took a petition to Tsar Nicholas II that called for higher wages, a shorter workday, and constitutional reforms to government. ... With the tsar eliminated from power, two centers of government emerged. ... With a legitimate claim to power, the Provisional Government controlled Russia and committed itself to the continued prosecution of the war. ... Lenin and Leon Trotsky, the radical Bolsheviks gained a majority in the soviets and c...

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The maneuvering of the Austrian government during the crisis compels me to place a large portion of the blame on Austria-Hungary for the outbreak of WW I. Austria-Hungary naturally harbored a fear of Russia and seemed to operate under the expectation that a Russian clash was as inevitable as a Serbian clash. ... For Russia, it was a simple matter of backing/protecting their ally, Serbia. ... ssumed the posture of war on behalf of Serbia while the Serbian government sought diplomatic solutions to the tensions. ... Likewise, if the Kaiser set his sights on France, Russia could mobilize in...

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This meant that everything the Duma decided on had to have the Tsars approval to become law and effectively took away any real governmental power that the Duma had. With a useless government, social discontent only grew worse and as it did, repression got more intense. ... This led to massive mistrust of the government amongst all walks of society and many began to blame Russia's problems on the autocracy. Kochan said it perfectly when he wrote "In a word, the war destroyed any confidence that still remained between the government and the people." ... There is no doubt that a c...

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Bismarck wanted to protect Austria-Hungary from possible Russian attacks which would eventually occur because Russia attacked Turkey. ... Two years later the Germans and Austro-Hungarians realized that Russia wouldn't attack them if they let Russia join their Alliance. ... The assassin was believed to be to have ties with a terrorist group in Serbia, this led to the conclusion that the Serbian government was behind the murder . ... World War ended between Russia and Germany with Russia surrendering because it could not take the cost of war any more .Germany and Russia signed the Treaty o...

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Russia was a protector of the Slavs with interests in the Balkans and it was intimidated by the Austrians, so Russia declared full mobilization of its troops on 30 July 1914. Consequently, Germany declared war on Russia on 1 August and on 3 August on France. ... The recovery of Alsace and Lorraine, which the French government regarded as essential, was not fully supported by Britain because of uncertainly about weather the inhabitants wished to be French or German. ... Russia's peasant conscripts were loath to leave their villages. Successive British governments refused to risk votes by i...

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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. ... He is a professor of Russian history at the State University of New York at Binghamton. He was also the author for the several books on Russia, most of them highly regarded. ... As oppose to Fall of the Romanovs Sidney Harcave's Years of the Golden Cockerel does not use any specific additional documents (letters, diary extracts, government telegrams), which could help the reader to understand the s...

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Again, Russia felt humiliated and cheated in 1908 when Austria-Hungary absorbed Bosnia and Herzegovina and Russia did not gain the Black Sea Straits as promised. ... Russia did not want to back down like this again. ... However, the league expired in 1887 when Russia did not renew. ... The formation of the Entente Cordiale and the Franco-Russian alliance worried the German government as they felt they were becoming encircled by the France, Russia and Great Britain. ... Russia was forced to back down rather than risk war. ...

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Argue your case with particular reference Great Britain, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia and USA. ... In contradiction to this, Russia however did not suffer from such social consequences, as it was not affected by the depression. ... Economic suffering had made people demand governments to take strong measures to stop further economic decline. ... Governments that failed to fight the depression caused domestic politics to become chaotic. ... Most governments implemented new taxes to help pay for the desperately needed welfare services. ...

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These new leaders preached communism which changed the societal culture throughout Russia; however, many Russian peasants were hesitant toward the new government ideas and policies. The government took advantage of the film industry and used propaganda as a way to spread communism to the Russians. World War I and the Russian Civil War led to the establishment of a Communist government in Russia, which leveraged its tight control on the film industry in order to forge unity amongst all social classes. ... Vertov made "Man with a Movie Camera" with hopes of rallying support for communism; after ...

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Why was there Revolution in Russia in March 1917? There were many reasons for a revolution in Russia in March 1917. ... Russia in the early 20th century covered a huge area that was a large proportion of the Asian continent and one very powerful man, the Tsar Nicholas II, ruled it all. ... After this the people wanted their own government so they could have power over the things like the price of bread and their wages, so Nicholas gave them a political institution called the Duma. ... As the First World War continued into 1917, ordinary Russian people too were becoming downhearted, as their s...

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As the Serbians denied this request, it is believed by some historians that the young operatives sent to kill Ferdinand were not only nationalistic students but also as scapegoats used by the Serbian government to carry out their dirty work. ... The other alliance: The Triple Entente, was made up of Great Britain, France and Russia. ... The Triple Entente was completed when Russia joined in 1907. ... Russia responded to this attack by partially mobilising and going to war against Austria-Hungary in order to protect their Slavic relatives, which was followed by Germany's demand tha...

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As the WWI started, the Young Turkish government started a war with Russia. ... But since some Armenians were fighting against Turkish troops - and therefore other Armenians since there were Armenians in Turkish side - the Turkish government feared that Armenians in the Empire would join the Russian enemy. ... The Turkish government today denies the Genocide charges. ... France, Russia, Greece, Argentina, EU parliament are on the list. ... Turkish government would do itself a favour to accept the charges. ...

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However, I should mention that the US government could not simply accept the fact that a country could exist with economic and political principles so critically opposed to democracy and industrial capitalism. ... Under the new Government Russia wants to withdraw from the World War I that they were involved in at that time. ... An angry Khrushchev said in Los Angeles in 1959: "Never have any of our soldiers been on American soil, but your soldiers were on Russian soil." ... He wanted to build up Russian control of the Eastern Europe that was seen by the west as an act of aggression. ... Hist...

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In Britain, the government released DORA - the Defence of the Realm Act, which granted the government wide powers including the control of railways and shipping. ... The Ministry of Munitions, as established by the British government in 1915, assumed control over industry in order to do so. ... The government also used propoganda to encourage women to take an active role in the war effort. ... Opposition to the war continued to grow as a consequence of not only the decline in living standrads but also as a result of a number of political demands put forward due to the Russian Revolution, as ...

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On October 4th, 1918, the German government asked Wilson for a cease of fire. ... The German government easily accepted Wilson's peace program, but the French and British were timid. ... Poland's territory was taken from Russia and Germany and given back to them. ... It was missing the United States, Soviet Russia, and Germany. Russia was not included in the Treaty of Versailles. ...

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He lived in Russia from 1869 through 1916. ... Rasputin, generally ready to offer advice, occasionally offered advice on Russian military strategy, although such advice never proved beneficial (Massie, K). ... Rasputin's disgraceful behavior, the tsarina's attempts to shield him, and a series of scandals involving his appointees helped to undermine the imperial government. ... Rasputin was illiterate, yet was able to control the administrative matters of Russia with the help of the tsarina, his deep relationships with the tsarina and the tsarina's over influence upon the tsar h...

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This argument leads one to believe that Wilson was performing in a purely democratic way by helping the more democratic governments in Europe defeat the autocratic governments, such as Germany, Austria and Turkey. ... 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. ... The tel...

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The triple Entente which included Britain, France and Russia after signing the Anglo-Russian Entente on 31 August 1907, to fight against the Triple Alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary which were bound by the 1879 Dual Alliance to support each other 'with the whole strength of the empires' if Russia attacked, and Italy joined in 1882 to form the Triple Alliance. ... Russia had recently been humiliated by the defeat of Japan, as a result allied with France for security from Germany. In addition Russia had a lot of domestic issues as well including needing to modernize and it was such ...

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The Triple Entente, later known as the Allies, consisted of France, Britain, and Russia. ... When Austria declared war on Serbia, Germany felt obliged by their alliance with Austria to declare war on Russia and next France, the ally of Russia. After the invasion of Belgium by the Germans, Britain declared war on Germany and supported Russia and France. ... Wilson, president of the United States at this time, was shocked but said that he would wait for "actual overt acts" (Danzer 585), and those came in form of the change of the Russian monarchy to a representative government, which made this w...

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With these acts of laziness came the advent of a new young Turkish government known as the Young Turks. ... This led to a continuation of the massacres that took place over a decade prior, and in 1909 the new rulers of Turkey called for the extermination of 30,000 Armenians in the city of Adana.8 Four years later in 1913, an extremist branch of the Young Turks, the Committee of Union and Progress seized control of the government. ... The last inference as to why the Ottoman's decided to perform the full frontal holocaust of the Armenian Christians comes during World War I concerning their...

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The consequences of these actions culminated in a series of alliances and treaties, partitioning the European powers into two groups: the Triple Alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy; and the Triple Entente of Great Britain, France and Russia. ... Russia, flushed with the spirit of pan-Slavism, declared war on Austria. Germany, honoring its pact with Austria, declared war on Russia and her ally, France. ... Remarque also displays the feelings of confusion and contempt held by the soldiers, who feel as though they have been wronged not by the opposing forces, but by their own govern...

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The countries that recognize the Armenian Genocide are France, Russia, Sweden, Greece , Argentina the EU parliament and others. ... Eastern Armenia was part of Russia and Western Armenia was under the rule of Ottoman Empire. ... In 1915 the Young Turk government proceeded with its plan to exterminate the Armenians. ... All across the empire orders issued by the government required Armenian men to appear at designated government offices on a certain date. ... Once Armenian society was completely paralyzed, the government issued the deportation edicts. ...

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Most of his points were ignored, such as when he noted that political parties "may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion. " (Washington) Even though the most significant founding father proclaimed such hatred against political parties, Hamilton and Jefferson started a bipartisan system just m...

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This truly was a "debased" Government. ... The people were getting incredibly angry with their Governments and system. ... Socialists saw the revolution in Russia and were inspired by it. ... Radicals seized Government buildings and two areas declared themselves republics. ... Government troops suppressed the unrest in a week. ...

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They agreed that land to the west of Lituania was to be the German and land to the east was to be Russian. The Russians and Germans had sealed the Polish fate. ... A.J.P Taylor rejects this idea and claims that Hitler was "not an evil monster who moulded events to fit his master plan", but was a man of "improvisation", "opportunism", and "the spur-of-the-moment bright idea", "an ordinary German statesman" whose foreign policy differed little from that of earlier German governments. ...

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