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The Three Why's Of The Russian Revolution

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The February and October Revolutions of 1917 produced a world that would be governed by Marxism and set the stage for an armed struggle that would shape the second half of the Twentieth Century. In the traditional telling of the history, the working class people rose up to remove the shackles that had kept them oppressed by the capitalists and the monarchy. However, Richard Pipes with the benefit of access to classified records contends that the Revolution came about because of a series of accidents that would alter the world and produce catastrophic results for the Twentieth Century. In his book, Pipes presents three why question of the Revolution and goes into each one individually. The Three Why’s of the Russian Revolution are; why did the

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