What do I need to know about the russian revolution?

Whites were bad, Reds weren't any better.

>>2936346
>be Russia
>be economically behind Europe, but rapidly catching up between 1880-1914
>Tsar Nicholas II is an idiot and is actively slowing down the transition to a constitutional monarchy
>lose the Russo-Japanese War but learn none of the lessons from the war
>fastforward to July 1914
>think you can mobilize your army without starting a war with Germany and AH
>Ottomans join the war a year later
>war is having a hellish toll on Russia
>Tsar is forced to abdicate
>a Provisional Government is set up with Kerensky as Prime Minister
>Kerensky continues the war like a retard
>Kerensky's government is now trying to both fight WWI and against the communists
>Reds (communists) defeat the Whites (monarchists and republicans)

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It wasn't actually much Russian.

>>2936480
>Kerensky oposing the commies

>>2936346
Lenin created a communist utopia where the workers owned the memes of production. The rest of the world finally got around to reading the communist manifesto and decided to have a global proletariat revolution and then everyone lived happily ever after and the evil capitalists were defeated, Finally proving that communist is actually a viable option and not a shitty meme.

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>>2936346
Commies sperged out

>>2936346
Before now you were beside
Not against nor for
Once in time your elder brother
opened your eyes
The conspiracy of the ancient sages
put the world on the brink
Strangers hold the power in their hands
and you pay tribute them!

Emptiness in place of stars,
Fire around the cross ...
Someone's cursed your people,
And it's not contingency!
But will come the time of "X"
And the Colossus will come alive!
The stakes are too high,
The game is serious!

Knife's
like
a razor
The battle
will be

Fist -
Like a flag over an exuberant head!
Leader
Said: "We'll take it with a vengeance!
In the dark
The enemy will not be saved!
It's time,
Prepare to take a step -
You will be given a sign!"

The mechanism is cleverly launched -
Goes beyond the ranks of the formation.
Alone you are nobody,
But in the crowd - a hero:
You have your own colors,
You know the terrible cry ...
The wall is indestructible,
In which you are a brick!

... You could have been born
Quite different places:
Where there are no grids
And do not build a block,
Where women do not cry
And do not hide persons,
Where children do not want
Play killers ...

The Angel of Death will be here,
When the fight begins, -
He will push you on the bayonet
And take it with you!
But again the march plays,
Again the leader is crying ...
And the columns of fools
Go back to the altar!

Fist -
Like a flag over an exuberant head!
Maniac
Said: "We'll take it with a vengeance!
In the dark
The enemy will not be saved!
It's time,
Prepare to take a step -
You will be given a sign! .. "

You will be given a barrel!
You will be given a flag!
You will be given a bayonet!
You will be given a sign!
You will be given a stake!
You will be given a tank!
You will be given a chain!
You will be given a sign!
You will get scrap!
You will be given a whip!
You will be given a coffin!
You will be given a sign! ..

Google translator made this pretty much, made it well.
Song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfcl1p43Mfw

>>2936346
Well, one thing to know is that there were TWO revolutions in 1917: in the first one, a loose coalition of various people overthrew the Tsarist government. In the second one, the Bolsheviks fucked everybody else in the ass and made themselves dictators of Russia.