In chapter 21 I learned the journey to Russia becoming the USSR. World War I made lower class Russians unhappy, forcing them to take more drastic measures such as organizing into parties and overthrowing elites. Many changes were instantly made throughout Russia, soldiers abandoned their posts, trade unions were created, peasants took over landlords' land and redistributed them. Even then, the government wasn't able to meet peoples demands, so a small socialist party, the Bolsheviks, came to power. The Bolsheviks managed to stay in power and renamed the country USSR. This was also Russian's road to communism and how it came to be.
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