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R- U.S Journalist A- U.S public F- Newspaper Article T- the revolution happening in Russia

WHY DID RUSSIA WITHDRAW FROM WORLD WAR I?
January 25th, 1921 by John Smith

Even though the Allied Powers(Britain, France, US, and Japan) emerge victorious while Germany and its allies(Austria-Hungary and the Ottaman Empire) defeated, the WWI did not work well for Russia. Russia was the one who declared war on Germany, supporting Serbia who had the largest Slavic population. Russia had nothing to fear, for it was allied with the most powerful European nations, Britain and France. At the beginning, all things seemed to work well for Russian troops, except the fact that they had lost more than 1,000,000 soldiers. However, WWI had a devastating impact on Russia. Russia had to get out of the war earlier due to the revolution happening in Russia. First, military loss at Tannenburg weakened the Russian army. During WWI, political tensions began to rise because Czar's government discredited itself. This resulted in bad economy condition. Also there are lots of problems rather than just politic and economic ones. Russia ran out of supplies. Lots of people suffered from hunger and died due to lack of food. People were feared and filled with anger. This caused the Russian monarchy to collapse. In 1917, people overthrew Czar, the provisional government. At the beginning of 1918,Civil War broke out. The radical revolutionary soldiers and workers became the Red Army under the lead of Lenin and the opponents became White Army. This civil war continued until 1920, it led to the victory of the Red Army and rise of Bolshevik government. This was called the October Revolution, also known as Bolshevik Revolution.



Bolshevik Revoltion, taken in 1917
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