HISTORY
WORLD WAR I AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
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WHAT WAS THE AURORA?
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A GERMAN YACHT ON WHICH THE PEACE TREATY WAS SIGNED BETWEEN GERMANY AND RUSSIA
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A RUSSIAN BATTLESHIP BROUGHT INTO PETROGRAD TO DEFEND THE PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT
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A RUSSIAN CRUISER BROUGHT INTO PETROGRAD BY SAILORS LOYAL TO THE BOLSHEVIKS
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None of the above
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -After service in the Russo-Japanese War, writes Norman Saul, the Aurora helped to secure the Bolshevik triumph in Petrograd. By the thunder of its guns directed on the Winter Palace the Cruiser Aurora heralded ‘the beginning of a new era, the era of the Great Socialist Revolution.
Detailed explanation-2: -Learn about this topic in these articles: It was the Aurora that in 1917 fired the blank shot that served as the signal to storm the Winter Palace during the October Revolution.
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