Relates how years of war and political and economic oppression destroyed the faith of the Russian people in their once-beloved leader, Alexander II. Discusses how this lead to the October Revolution and established the world's first communist government. Describes leaders of the revolution, Stalin and Lenin, and how the politcal upheaval of 1917 led to a radical departaure with the Czarist past and set Russian on the communist path.
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