The Russian Revolution was primarily caused by World War I.

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INSUFFICIENT LEANING

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Is it true that the Russian Revolution was primarily caused by World War I?

Unclear. The placed sources treat World War I as a major contributing factor to the 1917 revolution, citing war failures, war weariness and German wartime maneuvering, but one source explicitly notes historians still debate whether the war caused the revolution or merely hastened an inevitable collapse. None establishes that the war was the primary cause.

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Russian Revolution

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Russian Revolution. (n.d.). en.wikipedia.org. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Revolution

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How World War I Fueled the Russian Revolution | HISTORY

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How World War I Fueled the Russian Revolution | HISTORY. (n.d.). history.com. https://www.history.com/articles/world-war-i-russian-revolution

Did the Germans purposefully arrange to send Lenin to Russia to start a revolution?

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Did the Germans purposefully arrange to send Lenin to Russia to start a revolution?. (n.d.). history.stackexchange.com. https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/14608

Our Revolution: Essays on Working-Class and International Revolution, 1904-1917

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Our Revolution: Essays on Working-Class and International Revolution, 1904-1917. (n.d.). gutenberg.org. https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36303

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