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| - This is the Russian Civil war in the Early World War I timeline where the Russo-Japanese War expanded into an earlier first world war thanks mainly to the Dodger Bank incident, which in real life didn't cause a war between Britain and Russia. As you can see satirical drawing opposite, the root causes of the Russian Civil War was the war with Japan (which expands into a war with Britain) and growing discontent with the Tsar's regime and the ruling Russian elite. The civil strife had been brewing in the Russian Empire for some time, the authoritarian, central government of the Tsar had been oppressing the Russian peasants for hundreds of years. The lack of any democratic representation also had been annoying opposition politicians and people wanting change as there was no real way to do so, the great western democracies of Great Britain, USA, France, etc; were showing a real improvement in how the people should be treated by there government. This lack of representation and long dissatisfaction with the government gave way to numerous political parties. The political teachings of Karl Marx had appealed to numerous people and gave way to socialist parties such as the Socialist-Revolutionary Party, the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party and various other socialist groups. Not just socialists wanted change though, disenchanted nobles and aristocrats in Russia wanted more power and wanted to replace the Tsar in a constitutional monarchy. Other people wanted the monarchy abolished and a democratic republic in place, and some wanted an anarchic state. As well as political motivations, other conquered nations in the Russian Empire such as the Poles, Finns, Latvians, etc; wanted independence from Russia so they could rule there own land. Needless to say the Tsar had many enemies. All these rising tensions were reaching boiling point and in the real world they would simmer violently in the 1905 Russian Revolution but not boil over until the 1917 Russian Revolution. In this time-line however the 1905 revolution or the 1917 one would neither happen; but they would boil violently in 1906 until 1914. This Russian revolution would split the empire up into 21 different countries and kill millions of people.
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