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“The Capitalists will sell us the rope to which we will hang them” a quote by the infamous Vladimir Lenin, the leader and the founder of the Bolshevik (Communist) regime. Who destroyed Russia’s state of Monarchy to a state of Communism.
It all officially started March 8th, 1917. Of course, this is only the official start date of the revolution, many other events have led up to this. The revolution. Better known as the February Revolution (Russia used the Julian calendar, thus the name “February Revolution” while in the U.S it was March.) There are many events (revolutions) in the timeline of the Russian Revolution, most notably the 1905 Revolution, October Revolution, and the February Revolution. Many events earlier, such as the loss in the

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