HISTORY
WORLD WAR I AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
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Russian people realized that the system worked for nations in Western Europe.
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Russian citizens had adopted Eastern Orthodoxy and were very religious.
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Russian peasants and workers had been mistreated by czars and wanted a change.
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Russian people had an interest in expanding the military and creating an empire.
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Detailed explanation-1: -War communism was largely successful at its primary purpose of aiding the Red Army in halting the advance of the White Army, and in helping the Bolsheviks to re-conquer most of the territory of the former Russian Empire.
Detailed explanation-2: -Economic hardship, food shortages and government corruption all contributed to disillusionment with Czar Nicholas II. During the Russian Revolution, the Bolsheviks, led by leftist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin, seized power and destroyed the tradition of czarist rule.
Detailed explanation-3: -Peasants were promised land reform.
Detailed explanation-4: -They worked for little pay, often went without food, and were exposed to dangerous working conditions. The aristocrat class treated the peasants like slaves, giving them few rights under the law and treating them almost like animals. A major event leading to the Russian Revolution took place on January 22, 1905.