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16th April 1917: Lenin arrives back in Russia in the sealed train after a decade in exile
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Publish Date: 2018-04-15 21:05:08
Description: Vladimir Lenin arrived in Russia after a decade of self-imposed exile. Lenin, the leader of the Bolshevik Party, had left Russia in 1907 after Tsar Nicholas II cancelled many of the reforms he had promised following the 1905 revolution. While abroad he remained busy organising Bolshevik groups and publishing Marxist works, but following the February Revolution and the abdication of the Tsar in 1917 he began making plans to return to Russia. The country had been weakened by the exhausting toll of the First World War and this, combined with disastrous food shortages, had prompted the popular revolt that overthrew the ...
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