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1917 Russian Revolution Research Paper

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In 1917, two revolutions swept through Russia that ended centuries of imperial rule and setting into motion political and social changes that would lead to the formation of the Soviet Union. While the two revolutionary events took place within a few short months, social unrest in Russia had been simmering for decades. Russia was one of the most impoverished countries in Europe with an enormous amount of peasants and a growing population of poor industrial workers in the early 1900s. Most of the world viewed Russia as a backward society, as the Russian Empire practiced serfdom well into the nineteenth century. While the majority of Western Europe had abandoned the practice by the end of the Middle Ages. In 1861, the Russian Empire finally abolished
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