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The Russian Revolution was the bloodiest transfer of power the world has yet seen and ushered in decades of secrecy, suppression and state-sponsored persecutions across one-sixth of the Earth’s landmass. But what was the touchpaper that lit the fuse? What caused agrarian, unchanging Russia to throw off the shackles of centuries of absolute rule and embrace a radical, untested political ideology? How did the Marxist ideals the revolutionaries espoused change when they were put into practice, and what effect did this have on Russian society, from the entrenched and hidebound aristocracy at the top of the food chain to the millions of peasants whose labour paid for their elaborate lifestyles? Discover the answers to these questions and more as you explore the causes, events, key figures and outcome of the Russian Revolution and learn how it changed, not only its homeland but the shape of politics and international relations around the world forever. Learn how and why Marxist ideas appealed to Russian intelligentsia at the turn of the 20th century, discover the not-so-hidden power behind the Tsar’s throne and explore the series of events, from crushing military defeats to rationing and shortages at home that culminated in a popular uprising against more than 300 years of Romanov rule and opened the door to decades of totalitarian communist control over the world’s largest country and its allied states.