HISTORY
WORLD WAR I AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
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Mensheviks
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Bolsheviks
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Black Hand
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Kapitalists
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Detailed explanation-1: -Among the victims of the Red Terror were tsarists, liberals, non-Bolshevik socialists, anarchists, members of the clergy, ordinary criminals, counter-revolutionaries, and other political dissidents. Later, industrial workers who failed to meet production quotas were also targeted.
Detailed explanation-2: -On 25 October (O.S.; 7 November, N.S.) 1917, the Bolsheviks led their forces in the uprising in Petrograd (now St. Petersburg, then capital of Russia) against the Provisional Government.
Detailed explanation-3: -Russian Revolution of 1905, uprising that was instrumental in convincing Tsar Nicholas II to attempt the transformation of the Russian government from an autocracy into a constitutional monarchy.
Detailed explanation-4: -The White movement emerged as the first major opponent of the Bolsheviks.