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Was the Soviet Union Just the Russian Empire With a Red Flag? - The Bolshevik Reconquest of the Imperial Space | Sleepy Facts About History
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When the Bolsheviks seized power in 1917, they promised to dismantle what Lenin called the "prison of peoples" and abolish the imperial structures of the Romanov dynasty. Yet within a few years, they found themselves reconquering and governing from Moscow the very same vast territorial expanse they had sworn to destroy. This episode examines the central paradox of the early Soviet state: a regime that institutionalized national liberation while simultaneously centralizing control, and that…
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