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First World War

Global war of 1914–1918 between the Allied Powers, with Russia among them until 1918, and the Central Powers.

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Dates
28 Jul 1914 – 11 Nov 1918
Also known as
World War I, WWI, Great War
How each side tells it

According to Vladimir Lenin

According to Digital History Reader (Virginia Tech)

The First World War set the stage for the Russian revolutions of 1917. Accounts differ on how much it caused them: Vladimir Lenin described the “revolutionary situation” it created, and teaching historians count it as one cause among several of the October Revolution.

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  1. 28 Jul 1914 – 11 Nov 1918 First World War
Proof 2 sources
  1. Our Revolution (Apropos of N. Sukhanov's Notes), Marxists Internet Archive (Lenin, Collected Works, vol. 33, Progress Publishers), 30 May 1923. Primary record
    Does it not occur to any of them to ask: what about the people that found itself in a revolutionary situation such as that created during the first imperialist war?
  2. Module 03: 1917, Did the War Cause a Revolution? (Introduction), Digital History Reader, Virginia Tech. Scholarship & press
    While war was clearly one cause of Russia's revolutionary crisis, this unit examines the many factors informing the revolutionary upheavals of February and October 1917.
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