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Ever heard of the october revolution? That was the starting point.
by aeneasmackenzie 7y ago
Ever heard of the october revolution? That was the starting point.
- 77544cec 7y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_Revolution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_Revolution
- arethuza 7y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1905_Russian_Revolution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1905_Russian_Revolution You can keep going back a long long way....
- mirimir 7y agoLook, it was a mess. At that point, Russia was still a feudal state. And some say that Lenin was actually a German agent, directed to destabilize Russia, and keep it out of WWI.
- SiempreViernes 7y agoRussia would have fallen over from the stress of the war regardless, but the Germans did help with the transport of Lenin and some friends. Interestingly, wikipedia also mentions some american investment bankers wanting greater market access (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_Revolution#American_support https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_Revolution#American_su...).
- pjc50 7y agoThat was the reason why the Germans agreed to allow him passage through Germany in the famous "sealed train", yes.
- SiempreViernes 7y agoThe starting point of what? Certainly not the internal instability of Russia. I hope nobody believes you can have a revolution without lots of internal strife preceding it. If you want a starting point for those troubles, you should probably take the shots in Sarajevo in 1914, and the world war that followed.