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Why were there two Revolutions in 1917?
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02-04-10 IB1 History Lamin Khadar Why were there two Revolutions in 1917? Many tend to believe that there was just one general revolution in Russia in 1917. However, there were two revolutions, two different revolutions with different leaders and different ideas. The first was a provisional government, a kind of democracy, and the second instituted a Communist government. The question is, why were there two revolutions? The immediate cause of the first revolution, the February Revolution of 1917 was the collapse of the czarist regime under the gigantic strain of World War I. The underlying cause was the backward economic condition of the country, which made it unable to sustain the war effort against powerful, industrialized Germany. Russian manpower was virtually inexhaustible. Russian industry, however, lacked the capacity to arm, equip, and supply the 15 million men who were sent into the war. Factories were few and insufficiently productive, and the...
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