Revolutions of 1917–23
| Revolutions of 1917–1923 | |
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| Part of the aftermath of World War I | |
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Bolshevik troops photographed in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution (1917)
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| Date | 8 March 1917 – c. 16 June 1923 |
| Location | Worldwide mainly in Europe and Asia |
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The Revolutions of 1917–1923 were a period of political unrest and revolts around the world inspired by the success of the Russian Revolution and the disorder created by the aftermath of World War I. The uprisings were mainly socialist or anti-colonial in nature and many failed. Out of all the revolutionary activity of the era, the revolutionary wave of 1917–23 mainly refers to the unrest caused by World War I in Europe.
In war-torn Imperial Russia, the liberal February Revolution toppled the monarchy. It was unstable and the Bolsheviks seized power in the October Revolution. The ascendant communist party soon surrendered to Imperial Germany. It then battled its political rivals in the Russian Civil War, including invading forces from the Allied Powers. In response to Lenin, the Bolshevik Party and the emerging Soviet Union, anti-communists from a broad assortment of ideological factions fought against them, particularly through the counter-revolutionary White movement and the peasant Green Army, the various nationalist movements in Ukraine after the Russian Revolution and other would-be new states like those in Soviet Transcaucasia and Soviet Central Asia, through the anarchist-inspired Third Russian Revolution and Tambov Rebellion.
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