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Index Russia Main Page The Bolshevik Revolution Emergence of the USSR The Berlin Blockade and the Cold War Dissolution of the USSR Financial Crisis and Political Upheaval Putin's Rise to Power Attempts at Chechen Independence Fail A Shocking Hostage Situation, a Move Towards Climate Change, and Radiation Poison Crumbling Relations with the United States Putin Retains Power Conflict with Georgia and the Demise of the Western Friendship String of Suicide Bombs Sparks Fear of a Crackdown by Putin Putin to Return to the Presidency 2011 Parliamentary Elections Spark Massive Protests Russia Blocks U.N. Action in Syria Assassination Plot Uncovered Before Putin Wins the Presidential Election Protests Become Violent Ahead of Putin's Third Inauguration Massive Flood Kills More Than 100 People The Kremlin Takes Action against Political Activists Russia enters the World Trade Organization One Punk Band Member Released as Case Continues to Draw International Attention Russia Won't Renew Weapons Pact with United States Opposition Leader Says He Was Forced to Confess Meteorite Fragments Injure Hundreds

The Bolshevik Revolution

World War I demonstrated czarist corruption and inefficiency, and only patriotism held the poorly equipped army together for a time. Disorders broke out in Petrograd (renamed Leningrad and now St. Petersburg) in March 1917, and defection of the Petrograd garrison launched the revolution. Nicholas II was forced to abdicate on March 15, 1917, and he and his family were killed by revolutionaries on July 16, 1918. A provisional government under the successive prime ministerships of Prince Lvov and a moderate, Alexander Kerensky, lost ground to the radical, or Bolshevik, wing of the Socialist Democratic Labor Party. On Nov. 7, 1917, the Bolshevik Revolution, engineered by Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky, overthrew the Kerensky government, and authority was vested in a Council of People's Commissars, with Lenin as prime minister.

The humiliating Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (March 3, 1918) concluded the war with Germany, but civil war and foreign intervention delayed Communist control of all Russia until 1920. A brief war with Poland in 1920 resulted in Russian defeat.

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