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Russian Revolution of 1917

Wed, 18/07/2007 – 14:01

Russia on the eve of 1917 was a country dominated by the Tsar and a feudal aristocracy.

In 1914, the Russian empire, allied with France which was its main source of the huge loans keeping its creaking system afloat, entered the First World War against Germany and Austria-Hungary. France had high hopes that the Tsar’s huge peasant army, “the Russian steamroller”, would crush the German armies in the east, enabling it to break through in the west. Read more…

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