Why did the October Revolution happen?
Shows causes on the record, then each account's causes side by side.
Not a single settled cause.
A connection is not evidence of wrongdoing.
- Causes First World War, according to Vladimir Lenin and Digital History Reader (Virginia Tech) 28 Jul 1914 – 11 Nov 1918
Each account
A to Z, none ranked above another.
Named in 2 of the 2 accounts recorded here: First World War
According to Digital History Reader (Virginia Tech)
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First World War
caused
28 Jul 1914 – 11 Nov 1918
Scholarship & press
12
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.
According to Vladimir Lenin
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First World War
caused
28 Jul 1914 – 11 Nov 1918
Primary record
12
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?
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Bolshevik party organisation
caused
Primary record
3
Without such thorough, circumspect and long preparations, we could not have achieved victory in October 1917, or have consolidated that victory.
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Proof 3 sources
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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?
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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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"Left-Wing" Communism: an Infantile Disorder, ch. 3: The Principal Stages in the History of Bolshevism, Marxists Internet Archive (Lenin, Collected Works, vol. 31, Progress Publishers), 1920.
Primary record
Without such thorough, circumspect and long preparations, we could not have achieved victory in October 1917, or have consolidated that victory.
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