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20th Century Russia
1910-1920 Growing Unrest
In the first two decades of the century, radical solutions
to the problems of tsarist rule were proposed. The Russian Social Democratic
and Labour Party, formed in 1898, had some communist members. In 1903, the party
split into two groups: the Bolsheviks and Mensheviks. The Bolsheviks
were led by a charismatic young lawyer named Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, later
known simply as Lenin. He was repeatedly
jailed and exiled but kept returning to Russia hoping to inspire a revolution.
Related links: Media> 1910s > Propaganda (Lenin's Pravda Newspaper)
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The First World War: Tsarist rule grows less popular still