How are the Imperial German government and the dissolution of the Soviet Union connected?
One route through 4 sourced connections
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How are the Imperial German government and the dissolution of the Soviet Union connected? Here is one route, through 4 sourced connections.
1917
Step 1 of 4.
The Imperial German government funded the Bolsheviks. Money for propaganda and the party press.
Recorded in the German Foreign Ministry’s own files. How much money reached the Bolsheviks, and how much it mattered, is debated by historians.
8 Mar 1918
Step 2 of 4.
The Bolsheviks became the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Renamed the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks).
Step 3 of 4.
The Communist Party of the Soviet Union leads the Soviet Union.
Written into the 1977 Constitution as Article 6.
Step 4 of 4.
The dissolution of the Soviet Union involved the Soviet Union. Dissolved.
That is one route from the Imperial German government to the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Another runs through Lenin’s sealed train, Vladimir Lenin and the union republics’ right to secede, in part according to the Russian government. The explorer shows every route and lets you filter by lens, time and perspective.
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