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The '''Russian Revolution''' was a period of political and social upheaval across the territory of the Russian Empire, beginning with the abolition of the monarchy in 1925 and concluding in 1928 with the
== Background ==
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==== Tensions between liberals and nationalists ====
For the first month of its existence, the new Republic was deadlocked between the two major factions in government: the liberal republicans and the
Additionally, after the Czar fled, many non-Russian regions of the empire declared independence, while the Russian military acted mostly autonomously from the Republic's congress. In February 1926, after the first wave of elections was marred by controversy, the
In February of 1926, the first elections were marred with controversy. The Vosstanists walked out of Parliament, declaring their formal opposition to the liberal republicans. After a series of negotiations with military and Cossack leaders, including General [[Mikhail Orlov]], the national republicans formed the Russian National Congress, accusing the previously established Russian Republican Congress of being an illegitimate institution. On the nineteenth, the Congress elected the revolutionary author and politician [[Ozero|Anastaze 'Ozero' Muromsky]] as Chairman of the National Republic.
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The Vossatanists consolidated their power by enacting several social, martial, and economic programs, alleviating the worst effects of the famine and the economic crisis. Using authoritarian methods against dissenters and insurgents, they managed to confine the Parliamentarians to southern Russia by the summer of 1926. The Parliamentarians appealed to the Ottomans and the United Kingdom for assistance, but were given no response except for Finnish revolutionaries in the far north. By the winter of 1927, notable figures of Parliament left the country. By March of 1928, all major insurgencies had ceased.
Over the next two years, the liberal and nationalist congresses, along with their respective loyalist militaries and militias, waged a brief civil war, with the
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