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The 261 pages that link to Russian Revolution, each with the reason it gives.

• World War IRelated: Russia’s revolution led to its withdrawal from the war and transformed its political order.

• Soviet UnionNarrower topic: The revolutions created the Bolshevik government that later founded the union.

• Russian EmpireBroader topic: The revolution overthrew the Romanov regime and ended the empire.

• Karl MarxBroader topic: The Bolsheviks claimed Marxist ideas while adapting them to a largely agrarian society.

• Joseph StalinNarrower topic: The revolution created the new political order in which Stalin built his career.

• MarxismBroader topic: The Bolsheviks claimed Marxist legitimacy while adapting Marxist theory to Russian conditions.

• Russian Civil WarNarrower topic: The revolutions removed the old state and created the rival authorities that fought for control.

• Dissolution of the Soviet UnionCompared with: It preceded the Soviet state’s creation, while the 1991 dissolution ended that state.

• Social democracyRelated: The revolutionary break sharpened social democrats' distinction from communist movements.

• SocialismRelated: Its aftermath created the first durable state claiming to build socialism.

• October RevolutionNarrower topic: October is the second major revolution of 1917, distinct from the February overthrow of the monarchy.

• One-party stateRelated: The Bolshevik consolidation became an influential precedent for one-party government.

• Russian Revolution of 1905Broader topic: The unresolved conflicts exposed in 1905 returned on a larger scale twelve years later.

• MoscowRelated: The Soviet government’s move to Moscow in 1918 restored the city’s capital status.

• Class struggleBroader topic: The Bolsheviks presented revolution as a transfer of political power to workers and peasants.

• RevolutionBroader topic: It illustrates how war, state collapse, and organized parties can redirect revolutionary change.

• NationalizationRelated: The Bolshevik government nationalized major industries and land after taking power.

• Treaty of Brest-LitovskNarrower topic: The treaty emerged from the revolutions that transformed Russia’s government and war aims.

• Democratic socialismCompared with: The Bolshevik outcome sharpened disputes between democratic socialists and authoritarian communist models.

• Igor StravinskyRelated: The revolution and wartime disruption left Stravinsky separated from his homeland and its resources.

• Communist Party of the Soviet UnionRelated: The revolution transformed the Bolsheviks into a governing force.

• BolsheviksNarrower topic: The faction’s origins unfolded within this broader revolutionary crisis.

• Russian avant-gardeRelated: The revolution created new institutions and expectations that redirected artistic work toward public and political purposes.

• The Communist ManifestoRelated: Bolshevik leaders treated Marx and Engels as foundational authorities, extending the pamphlet’s political legacy.

• Communist InternationalRelated: The Bolsheviks’ victory gave the new International its organizing center and model.

• Russian SymbolismRelated: The revolution forced Symbolist writers to confront history as more than a mystical abstraction.

• StalinismNarrower topic: The Bolshevik state created the setting in which Stalin later consolidated power.

• Sergei EisensteinRelated: The revolution shaped the political culture and historical subjects of Eisenstein’s Soviet films.

• Russian nationalismRelated: The revolution displaced monarchy-centered nationalism and transformed the state’s nationalities policy.

• TrotskyismNarrower topic: Trotsky’s political role and later disputes grew directly from the revolution’s outcomes.

• Anna AkhmatovaRelated: The revolution transformed the political world in which Akhmatova continued to write.

• Serfdom in RussiaNarrower topic: The revolution followed decades of rural inequality left unresolved after emancipation.

• Soviet literatureNarrower topic: They overturned the political order that Soviet literature would represent and contest.

• Time of TroublesCompared with: It ended the Romanov rule that began with the Troubles' settlement.

• White movementNarrower topic: The revolutions created the struggle against Bolshevik rule that united the Whites.

• SerfdomRelated: The revolution followed emancipation by decades and unfolded amid unresolved peasant demands over land and power.

• Dmitri ShostakovichRelated: His childhood and early education unfolded amid the revolution and the new Soviet state.

• Emma GoldmanRelated: Goldman returned to Russia expecting social transformation, then condemned Bolshevik repression.

• Anti-communismRelated: The Bolshevik seizure of power turned opposition to communism into an international political force.

• Interwar periodBroader topic: It transformed the former Russian Empire and influenced revolutionary movements worldwide.

• Nicholas IINarrower topic: The February uprising finally displaced Nicholas and the monarchy.

• Fourteen PointsRelated: Russia’s withdrawal from the war and publication of secret treaties intensified debate over peace terms.

• French Communist PartyRelated: The Bolshevik victory inspired the revolutionary alignment behind the party's founding.

• Red ScareRelated: The Bolshevik seizure of power made fears of revolutionary communism more immediate in the United States.

• Alexander BlokNarrower topic: The revolution supplied the historical setting and central force of Blok’s late poetry.

• LeningradRelated: Revolutionary politics formed the context for the city’s Soviet-era renaming.

• Russian emigrationRelated: The revolutions of 1917 began the upheaval that pushed many people to leave.

• State socialismBroader topic: The Bolshevik victory created the first durable state built around Marxist rule.

• Black Sea FleetRelated: Revolution and civil war fractured command and drove evacuations of the fleet.

• George VCompared with: The overthrow of Tsar Nicholas II contrasted with the survival of Britain’s monarchy.