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February Revolution
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Wartime Dissatisfaction and Economic Failure
The war effort was disastrous. Military defeats, high casualty rates, and gross mismanagement by the Stavka (High Command) destroyed morale among the peasantry serving in the army. Domestically, the mobilization of resources for the front crippled the civilian economy. Inflation was rampant, supply chains collapsed, and major cities, particularly the capital, Petrograd (then St. Petersburg), faced acute shortages of bread and fuel as winter turned severe [1].
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Russian Revolution
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Preconditions and Causes
The roots of the revolution lay deep within the autocratic structure of the Romanov Dynasty. By the early 20th century, Russia suffered from significant internal contradictions. Industrialization, while rapid in certain urban centers like Petrograd and Moscow, created a volatile, politically conscious proletariat living in abysmal conditions. Meanwhile, the vast peasantry remained land-starved and burdened by archaic land-holding systems.
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Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
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Formation and Early Years (1917–1922)
The RSFSR was proclaimed immediately following the Bolshevik seizure of power in Petrograd. Initially, it was conceived as a federation of revolutionary councils (soviets), drawing heavily on the concept of the Paris Commune but adapted for a continental scale [^2]. Its initial territory was vast but highly contested during the Russian Civil War (1917–1922).
The fundamental legal and territorial definition of the RSFSR was established by the Constitution of 1918, which stressed the "dictatorship o…