1. Background of the Russian Revolution
... of representation among the people considering that Tsar easily ignored the Duma, a body that was elected in the year 1905. The emperor thwarted any form of opposition by employing the secret police forces and so the freedom of expression was really limited and this included the spread of information through the newspaper, and even books. The rebellion against the royal family was ... a new paper and called it Pravda as the earlier newspaper and this annoyed Trotsky so much that he wrote a letter to Mensheviks denouncing Lenin, though it was intercepted by the police. The World War I wa...
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