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Examine the causes of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and indicate its significance in world history.

  • UPSC 2003
  • Revolution and Counter-Revolution

The Russian Revolution of 1917 ended three centuries of Romanov autocracy and installed the world's first avowedly Marxist state, and its true weight lies as much in what it set in motion globally as in the domestic crisis that produced it.

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  • Political Causes: The Rigidity of Tsarist Autocracy
  • Social and Economic Causes: Land Hunger and an Industrial Underclass
  • The Catalytic Role of the First World War
  • From February to October
  • Significance in World History

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