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In assessing how crucial World War One's Impact

In assessing how crucial World War One's impact was in the success of the Bolsheviks in the Russian Revolution of October 1917 it is first essential that said impacts are established and said success is broken down into its determining components Certainly World War One presented enormous strain on Russia as with the rest of Europe but particularly on Russia s political social and economic structures which were already largely precarious Arguably the war was the crucial factor in pushing Russia into revolution the extent of famine and food shortage accompanied by poor performance in the war forced social revolt and ultimately Tsar Nicholas II's abdication perhaps leaving an open door for the Bolsheviks Though the extent to which this was truly the crucial factor in regards to Bolshevik success should be questioned Russian people were already and had long been largely dissatisfied with the Tsarist system as exemplified by Bloody Sunday of 1905 Furthermore in suggesting World War One was the crucial factor in Bolshevik success discounts the role of Lenin and the Bolsheviks as active revolutionaries fighting the peoples cause 



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