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…that a victory will raise the troops dangerously low moral, but all initial successes were lost after the German counter attack, where 400,000 Russian Casualties are taken. Protests against the war begun again with new fervor, and the pro-peace Bolsheviks gained much…

…to the Bolsheviks. This led to a power struggles within Russia and hence, the Civil War of 1918-21. <Tab/>Since Russia's involvement in World War I had adversely affected the country both economically and socially, Lenin believed that ending the war would…

…was Trotsky able to be backed by Lenin and considered by most Russians as the clear choice for the next leader after Lenin's death and still not become the leader of the party? Trotsky had substantial power. He was the commissar for war with a considerable level…

…at the failure of the war and the shortages it caused- it was a major cause of the March revolution to overthrow the Tsar. The war was already going badly when the June-July Russian offensive was a complete disaster. This was a huge blemish on the provisional…

…, the animals of Animal Farm actually encouraged Napoleon’s worsening or shortening their lives. In the Russian Revolution, Lenin made it clear that everyone of the people in Russia were Soviets and that they were all equal. Once Lenin died, Stalin took supreme…

…In 1812 Czar Alexander the First had sworn an oath that Russia would never make peace as long as an enemy stood on Russian soil. Little did he know that not much more than a century later the enemy was those who were native to the Russian soil…

…of German music and Italian operas at that time encouraged Russian composers to imitate the popular style with no preservation of its national Russian traits. For this reason, Glinka is considered to be the father of Russian classical music: he brought it up…

…and institutions, such as Lenin, Stalin, Kirov, Dzerzhinskii, Chicherin, the Soviet of Peoples' Commissars (Sovnarkom), and the Cheka. The material covers 1902 through 1937, most of it donated by his wife. Karl Marx Karl Marx was a German, but his ideas changed Russian…

…The Russian Revolution in 1905 was important in Russian History. The Economic problems, the Russo-Japanese war, and problems with the Czar Nicholas II were the major causes of the Russian Revolution. After the Russo-Japanese War ended, economic problems…

…that Russia had no money to fully equip the army. The fact that the pre war projections of ammunition and other necessities during war where far less than what was needed meant that the Russian army went into battle with the men having to "Pick up the guns…