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Interlinks new illustrated history series seeks to explore the persistentthemes of our recent past in order to prepare for the new century. Each volumeoffers a concise yet comprehensive analysis of a particular political culturalor social phenomenon and is lavishly illustrated with color and bw photographsand maps.In February 1917 the centuriesold and immense empire of the Czars ally ofthe United States and Britain during World War I suddenly collapses. Eightmonths later the revolutionaries under Lenins leadership take power andsign an armistice with Germany.Few would have bet on this government of inexperienced militants against aforce of armed counterrevolutionaries sustained by the West. But themobilization of the population the power of the Red Army and political policethe experience the communists gain during the war and Lenins skill indirecting the new political economy allow the Bolsheviks to strengthen theirhold on the great empire.By the time of Lenins death on January 21 1924 the door has been opened tomany decades of communist power though as Stalin gains prominence that powerwill become much different than that of the heroes of the October Revolution. «
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