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So you're ignoring the fact that before the communist revolution in October, there was also a bourgeois revolution in February (less than a year before the Communists). You ignore the crop failures throughout the northern hemisphere and the problem that some "oppositionists" destroyed livestock and grain so that it would not get to the communists/workers/people. You're ignoring the fact that collectivization was forced first in order to cope with the impending famine, and it was borrowed from the time of the Russian Empire that is, they foresaw it back then and tried to fight the impending famine due to the First World War, but it was growing like a snowball, and climate problems and the revolution was added to the fire.
reply to blog post I wrote this AM
USA discomfort will be temporary,. Right
After Communist revolution in 1920s. Vladimir Lenin assured Russians their discomfort would be
OKAY
i didn't ignore it, just blog posts I write are usually short these days. I did track this down from Wikipedia-
By the end of the 19th century, Russia had expanded its control over the Caucasus, most of Central Asia and parts of Northeast Asia. Notwithstanding its extensive territorial gains and great power status, the empire entered the 20th century in a perilous state. The devastating Russian famine of 1891–1892 killed hundreds of thousands and led to popular discontent. As the last remaining absolute monarchy in Europe, the empire saw rapid political radicalization and the growing popularity of revolutionary ideas such as communism.[11] After the Russian Revolution of 1905, Nicholas II authorized the creation of a national parliament, the State Duma, although he still retained absolute political power. When Russia entered the First World War on the side of the Allies, it suffered a series of defeats that further galvanized the population against the emperor. In 1917, mass unrest among the population and mutinies in the army culminated in the February Revolution, which led to the abdication of Nicholas II, the formation of the Russian Provisional Government, and the proclamation of the first Russian Republic. Political dysfunction, continued involvement in the widely unpopular war, and widespread food shortages resulted in mass demonstrations against the government in July. The republic was overthrown in the October Revolution by the Bolsheviks, who proclaimed the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic. During the resulting Russian Civil War, the Bolsheviks conducted the Red Terror. After emerging victorious, they established the Soviet Union across most of the Russian territory; Russia was one of four continental European empires to collapse as a result of World War I, along with Germany, Austria–Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire.
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