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Tsar Nicolas II failed to address the crisis facing Russia in 1917, and as a result, he was forced to abdicate. His abdication marked the passing of the old political order that had dominated European and Russian history for centuries. V.I. Lenin and his Bolsheviks came seized power using the slogan, “peace land and bread.” They abolished private property, granted land to the peasants, and nationalized industry and finance. The Soviet Union became a command economy that challenged capitalism for much of the 20th century, When the Soviet system collapsed in 1991, its fall brought on the new era of economic globalization.

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World History
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Moscow St. Petersburg Petrograd Tsaritsyn Yetkaterineburg Khatanga Bolshevik Revolution Cities of Interest
 
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