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The Russian Revolution of 1917 was a single revolution which developed two phases. Elucidate.

  • UPSC 1992
  • Revolution and Counter-Revolution

Treating February and October 1917 as two unconnected episodes obscures a deeper continuity — the same structural crisis of war, land hunger, and autocratic collapse worked itself out across both, making 1917 better understood as one revolutionary process staged in two acts rather than two separate revolutions.

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  • The Continuity of Underlying Causes
  • Dual Power as a Transitional, Not Terminal, Arrangement
  • Lenin's Own Reading: One Revolution, Two Stages
  • Where the "Two Revolutions" View Still Holds Force

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