This day marks the 105th anniversary of the October Revolution, one of the greatest uprising in world history. When workers, peasants, women and students united and overthrew the status quo to establish a Socialist state! Lenin proclaims Soviet power in Smolny Palace, Petrograd, 1917 . Background The Russian Empire, ruled by Tsar Nicholas II stretched from the Baltic to the Pacific, inhabited by 126 million people, from 194 ethnic groups. It was a country in which workers and peasants lived in poverty and hardship - while Russia's elite - its imperial family and aristocracy - lived lives of gilded luxury. The Tsar did allow the creation of a State Duma, or National Assembly. But its power was limited, and the people's pains were still ignored. World War I The Russian Empire was plunged into a fresh crisis... by world war. World War I was a disaster for Tsarist Russia. At War, the country suffered a series of devastating defeats, while at home there were food shortages and e
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