Other nations were soon to follow...
Russia's tightening influence in...
Japanese naval dominance in the east...
Dissatisfaction with the Tsarist...
In early 1912, the weak and corrupt...
The assassination of Archduke Franz...
By February 1917 (according to the...
The new Russian Republic was weak...
By December 1917, Lenin's Bolsheviks...
The Bolsheviks consolidated their...
On December 15, 1917, Lenin,...
Large numbers of Czechs and Slovaks...