Thursday, January 14, 2010

The Russian Revolution

The Russian Revolution happened in 1917. It was led by a man named Vladimir Lenin. The Russian Revolution happened during WW1. The leader of Russia kept on sending troops into war. After a while the soldiers got fed up with always being hungry, cold, and badly equipped, so they decided to desert. After Nicholas II's regime was overthrown Vladimir Lenin took over. He created the slogan "Peace, Land, and Bread" and promised to provide those to every man in Russia. He was very popular for that. The Russian citizens were tired of losing at war, not being able to afford land, and starving, so when Lenin started promising these things the majority of the Russian people supported him, which inadvertently ended up going from communism to a dictatorship.

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