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Brief version: 1. Russians were unprepared for the war, lost territory and enormous numbers of troops. People were hungry. Many didn't even know which countries they were fighting or why. 2. Bolsheviks (illegal socialist faction) opposed the war, saw it as workers of one nation fighting workers of other nations for the benefit of the landed classes. Urged resistance, promoted international unity of workers against gentry. 3. War losses ultimately led to the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II. New government was not well organized or prepared to win the war either. 4. Temporary government argued within its own ranks, finally called on Bolshevik-controlled groups to defend one side in Petrograd from the other. 5. Bolsheviks (headed by Lenin) succeeded; now had a militia and control of the Soviets, the Red Guard, and Petrograd. Looked like a threat to the provisional government, which they were. 6. Provisional gov't head (Kerensky) formed alliance with landed classes, sent Cossacks...

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