.TheRussian Revolution(1917) was successful in part because of theFirst World War, public discontent, and the vulnerability of the Russian monarchy. The last Tsar of Russia,Nicholas II, was succeeded by the short-lived Provisional Government (July–November 1917), which was overthrown by the ...
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many largely wealthy Jews from Baghdad moved to Shanghai and invested in the development of the International Settlement. Later waves of Jews arrived following the Russian Revolution in 1917 and again in the 1930s as Jews from across Europe sought to escape from Nazi-led persecution. Shanghai st...
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Competing ideologies further fanned the flames of international tension. TheBolshevik Revolutionin czarist Russia during the First World War, followed by the Russian Civil War, had established the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), a sprawling communist state. Western republics and capitalists ...
Russian Revolution, two revolutions in 1917, the first of which, in February (March, New Style), overthrew the imperial government and the second of which, in October (November), placed the Bolsheviks in power, leading to the creation of the Soviet Union
The Russian republic was established immediately after the Russian Revolution of 1917 and became a union republic in 1922. During the post-World War II era, Russia was a central player in international affairs, locked in a Cold War struggle with the United States. In 1991, following the dissol...
In 1902, he was arrested for coordinating a labor strike and exiled to Siberia, the first of his many arrests and exiles in the fledgling years of the Russian Revolution. It was during this time that he adopted the name Stalin, meaning "steel" in Russian. Though never a strong orator lik...