ABSTRACT
Russian Revolution is the collective term for a pair of revolutions in Russia in 1917, which dismantled the Tsarist autocracy and led to the eventual rise of the Soviet Union. Great Britain and France had made enormous efforts to keep Russia in the war. They had sent munitions, military missions, statesmen, politicians, and socialists to aid and encourage the Russians, and the success of these efforts was indubitable. Trotsky also proposed to all governments an immediate armistice and commencement of preliminaries of peace, and declared that hostilities had been suspended. The Peasant Conference gave a hostile reception to Lenin and refused to felicitate him upon the conclusion of an armistice; and the elections for the Constituent Assembly, up to November 28th, gave a majority of 77,600 votes against the Bolsheviks. Nevertheless the Soviet Government had to abandon the naive idea of arriving at an armistice by fraternization of soldiers. Attempts at fraternization on the Russo-Roumanian front were received with fusillades.
