The Austrian ambassador to Serbia immediately left Belgrade and France, promising to support Russia if they went to war. ... What were soviets, and what roles did they play in the March and October Revolutions? ... The two revolutions occurred during harvest, enabling the Russian people to make money and feed their families. ... How did Lenin manipulate the Petrograd Soviet to begin the October Revolution? When Lenin returned to Russia, his goal was to get the Soviet's to give their power back. ...

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In 1918, Russia had its civil war. It was caused by a revolution known as "The Bolshevik Revolution.... Between 1918 and 1920, Russia was at "war within itself.... This whole feud is a result of the "Bolsheviks Revolution.... China faced a two way battle while Russia only had one. ...

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As Russian wasn't Joseph's first language, he learnt it by the time he was nine. ... To kick start the industrial and agricultural revolution he made the Five Year Plan. ... Stalin changed the whole world's perception of USSR and for the first time in history Russia was getting influence in Europe and was incorporated with a lot of European events. ...

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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. ... 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 revolution in the West. ... The greatest consequence of this treaty is the Russian loss of territory. Russia surrendered most of its European regions. ...

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Furthermore the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk 1918 and the Bolshevik Revolution made Russia's situation worse, as 1/3 of the population was lost in the unasked war and only to be left more vulnerable by the Russian civil war 1918-1923. Even though the revolution weakened Russia's industrial powers, the civil war was the final knock to the already weak Tsarist Russia and a clear path for some serious modernization. ... Linin made an impact on the modernization of Russia by leading the revolution. ... This allowed the followers to have desire about modernisation, as they were in the revolu...

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So, they asked to Russia to help them to beat or save them. ... So, Russia said they will join it, but after Russia said that to Serbia, German joined it for the Serbia. ... Russia declread the war after the German like I said. of course, Russia wanted war as bussines, but they were not ready for the war in 1914 because of Japan-Russia war at 1904 to 1905. the dameged was so huge for Russia. As Russian expetcted, the war made them, Russian, are in chaos. Thus, they got Russia revolution in 1916. ...

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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. ... Manor Farm represents Russia, and Old Major, Snowball, and Napoleon represent the prominent figures of the Russian Revolution namely Marx/ Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin respectively. ... In 1917, the Russian Revolution took place. ... George Orwell and other supporters of the Russian Revolution were disillusioned. ...

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Imperialism was a major cause because Great Britain, Germany and France needed foreign markets after the increase in manufacturing caused by the Industrial Revolution. ... War was avoided only because Serbia could not fight without Russian support, and Russia at the time was unprepared for war. ... On July 29, Russia ordered a partial mobilization only against Austria-Hungary in support of Serbia, which escalated into a general mobilization. The Germans threatened war on July 31 if the Russians did not demobilize. ... On August 1, Germany declared war on Russia, and two days later, on France....

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This revolution spread quickly through Hungary. ... (Hungary 1956) On October 23, hundreds of workers and students marched through the streets of Budapest while shouting "Out with the Russians," and "Down with Gero." ... The people of Hungary and the rest of Eastern Europe were completely ruled over by communist Russia. Anyone who challenged the rule of Stalin and Russia paid the price. ... (Hungary 1956 and the Political Revolution) ...

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These included World War One, the Russian Revolution, the Yugoslavian war, the Arab/Israeli Wars and the Gulf War. ... The Russian Revolution however, was a perfect example of how people will take advantage of the collapsing of an Empire. There were many economic problems occurring in Russia, as well the mistreatment of the peasant class. ... For example, the Russian Revolution began because the peasants were being unjustly treated. ...

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The issue that took the most time were the territorial issues because the empires of Russia, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman, and Germany had collapsed. ... During 1918, Russia was knocked out of the war due to military defeats and the Bolshevik Revolution. Even though Russia had not been part of the Central Powers, Germany seized much of western Russia. After many months of arguing, the four men had made western Russia into the nations of Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, and Poland. ...

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Sunny claims that, "Especially under Lenin, the development of nationalism was encouraged in the Soviet Union which lead to inner conflict and desire for the new nations to break free from the Diets, from Russians' rule" (www.worldhistoryhub.com book review, Sunny, the Revenge of the Past: Nationalism, Revolution and the Collapse of the Soviet Union). ... The areas of ethic conflict were: "Russia (Tatarstan and Chechnya), Ukraine(Crimea), Moldova(Transdnistria), Latvia and Estonia (Russian minorities), Georgia(Abkhazia, South Ossetia), Armenia and Azerbaijan (Nagorno-Karabakh), Central A...

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In the years following 1815, the four great powers, Britain, Russia, Austria and Prussia, agreed to hold periodic conferences to discuss matters affecting the Vienna Settlement 1814-1815, and to discuss the maintenance of order in Europe which was destroyed by the Napoleon Wars which lasted for over 20 years. In the year 1789, the French revolution broke out, a series of revolutionary wars began, leading to the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. ... After the defeat of Napoleon in the Battle of Waterloo 1814, the great allied powers Britain, Russia, Austria and Prussia faced the problem of re-organi...

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He saw the carnage of two world wars, the destruction of empires through revolutions in Austria, Germany, Hungary and Russia, the surfacing of mass communist and fascist movements throughout Europe, the misery of the third Reich, the division of Germany and the cold war. ... Brecht was exiled and travelled almost all over Europe, followed by the Nazi's until eventually, via Russia, he reached America. ...

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Italy and Germany had been unified not many decades earlier, Britain was enjoying the beneficial effects of an Industrial Revolution, and France was angry and thirsty for revenge over the loss of Alsace-Lorraine. ... The Moroccan crisis between France and Germany proved to be one "testing ground" for French allies Britain and Russia. ... Russia opposed this move, due to it's Serbian alliance after the Bosnian Crisis, resulting in Germany entering a war with Russia, and shortly thereafter with France, Russia's ally. ...

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Reparations affected many different countries in Europe mainly Germany, France, Britain and Russia. ... At the Genoa conference Germany was put in between the allies and Russia, not wanting to make an agreement with one or the other with the risk of offending either Russia or the allies. With Russia there was a greater risk as they might demand reparations too. ... Another result of the Genoa conference was that Germany and Russia decided to meet alone in Rapallo. ... The treaty resulted in Russia claming reparations from Germany and Germany claming compensation from Russia from the time of th...

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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. ... 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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Two groups were formed, the Central Powers consisting of Germany, Turkey, Austria and the Allied Powers with France, Great Britain, and Russia. ... 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 him and even more since Russia was an Allie but on March 15, Russian revolutionaries over the czar and became a republic. ...

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Russia, under Lenin's rule called for a world revolution and brought the United States into it. ... Also the Russian government was seeking revenge on the United States because the United States did not enter the war effort soon enough and that caused for more Russian casualties. ... Russia was trying to spread communism, abolish democracies, and spread poverty. ... The United States didn't want to risk the lives of their young men, just as the Russians didn't. The Russians directly blamed the United States for their 30 million casualties in WWII. ...

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Joseph was born December 21 1879 in Gori, Georgia, Russia. ... Joseph spoke only Georgian until he was 8, when he learned to speak Russian. ... In 1917 after the overthrowing or the Russian czar Stalin was able to return where as a result of the February and October revolutions he was named Commissar of nationality affairs of the communist party. 1918 was Stalin's time to shine as a military power, he served as a general of the red army in a civil war which lasted for 3 years, Lenin then appointed him commissar of the workers and peasants. ... The grim time that Stalin's advisors...

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"The devotion to Marxism, the attack against capitalism, and the often repeated desire to provoke Communist revolutions in other countries had made that nation the object of American suspicion long before the coming of World War II or even Vietnam." ... The Berlin Airlift saw U.S. and Royal Airlift planes bring supplies to Berliners, breaking the Russian blockade. This was an attempt to make Russia less powerful by making Germany stronger. ... This was the first military treaty between the United States and Europe since the American Revolution. ...

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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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At the turn of the century, around 1902, Russia fell victim to a famine and a cholera epidemic. Following this terrible year a wave of anti-Semitism swept across the Russian State. ... Jews in every community throughout Russia were in danger of losing their lives. ... Russia was not the only source of persecution for the Jews, they were also fleeing Romania. ... It stated that all of the traditional institutions must be overthrown and that Jews must demoralize and corrupt all Christian peoples with wars, strikes, and revolutions. ...

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The Russian revolution occurred in two steps in 1917, when the Czar had partially lost his power to the Parliament in February, and Bolsheviks overthrew both in October. A new wave of communists lead by Lenin spread throughout Russia, and soon influenced the rest of the world. ... Communists in Russia appealed to the majority of the working class, practicing populist methods of promising end of wars, land and work for all. ...

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Austria-Hungary signed war pact with Germany while Serbia with Russia (U.S.S.R) France and Britain (The Alliance). ... Lands that Germany had taken from Russia had to be returned and Western Germany was demilitarized. ... The countries that had powers then were Britain, France, America and Russia. World War one was the beginning of a new revolution; it was also one of the reasons World War two occurred. ...

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