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War Communism, 1917-1920 | The Russian Revolution of 1917
The first period of Soviet history, which runs from the end of 1917 to the end of 1920, is usually called the period of war communism, or military communism. The term implies that the main features of the period were deter- mined by military events; civil war raged, and foreign powers intervened on Russian soil.
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Leave a commentThe November Revolution | The Russian Revolution of 1917
The provisional government faced a crisis. Kerensky, now war minister, emerged as the dominant leader. He failed to realize that it was no longer possible to restore the morale of the armies. A new offensive ordered on July 1 collapsed as soldiers refused to obey orders, deserted their units, and hurried home to their villages, eager to seize the land. The soviets became gradually more and more Bolshevik in their views. Although the June congress of soviets in Petrograd was less than 10 percent Bolshevik, the Bolshevik slogans of peace, bread, and freedom won overwhelming support.
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Leave a commentLenin | The Russian Revolution of 1917
The most important of the returning Bolshevik exiles was Lenin. His real name was Vladimir Ilyich Ulianov (1870-1924), but in his writings he used the pen name Lenin, to which he sometimes prefixed the initial N, a Russian abbreviation for "nobody," to tell his readers that he was using a pseudonym.
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Leave a commentThe Provisional Government | The Russian Revolution of 1917
The provisional government—which held office between mid-March and early November 1917—was a total failure. Russian moderates had no experience of authority. They were separated by a great cultural gulf from the lower classes. Their opportunity to rule came amid a fearful war, which they felt they had to pursue while reconstructing and democratizing the enormous and unwieldy Russian Empire.
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Leave a commentThe March Revolution | The Russian Revolution of 1917
By February only ten days' supply of flour was left in the capital, and the regional commander set up a rationing system. Long lines, closed shops, and the prospect of starvation led to disorder.
In the Duma "unfit ministers" were attacked. The left-wing deputies turned to the secret organizations, which had already been working up public opinion against the government's dismissal of thousands of factory workers after a strike. The strikers demonstrated in the streets, and thousands of other workers, led by the wives of the workers, massed in a march that was broken up by mounted police.
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Leave a commentThe Immediate Background to Revolution, 1914-1917 | The Russian Revolution of 1917
Russia was geographically isolated from the munitions and supplies that would otherwise have come from the Allies. Despite Russia's great resources in agriculture and potential for industry, transportation was inadequate from the beginning, and when the trains were used to move troops, food shortages developed in the cities. Losses in battle were staggering from the first; the Russians suffered nearly 4 million casualties during the first year of war.
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Though Russia was shaken by domestic crisis in 1914, the country greeted the outbreak of World War I with demonstrations of national patriotism.
The Duma supported the war, while the left-wing parties abstained from voting for war loans but offered to assist the national defense.
Yet it was the war and the regime's failure to deal with the crises it provoked that precipitated revolution.
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Civil War, 1918-1921 | The Russian Revolution of 1917