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(contracted; show full)'s troops and all vestiges of democracy were removed. With the handicap of the moderate opposition removed, Lenin was able to free his regime from the war problem by the harsh [[Treaty of Brest-Litovsk]] (1918) with Germany Russia lost much of her western borderlands. However, when Germany was defeated the Soviet government repudiated the Treaty.<ref>W. Bruce Lincoln, ''Red Victory: A History Of The Russian Civil War, 1918-1921'' (1999)</ref>

===Russian Civil War===
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[[File:Russia Famine Saratov 1921.jpg|thumb|[[Russian famine of 1921]], which killed an estimated 5 million.]]

The Bolshevik grip on power was by no means secure, and a lengthy struggle broke out between the new regime and its opponents, which included the Socialist Revolutionaries, right-wing "Whites", and large numbers of peasants. At the same time the [[Allied intervention in Russia|Allied powers sent several expeditionary armies]] to support the anti-Communist forces in a(contracted; show full)

==External links==
{{Spoken Wikipedia|En-History_of_Russia_(intro).ogg|2012-03-18}}
{{Commons category|Maps of the history of Russia}}
*[http://www.library.illinois.edu/spx/webct/subjectresources/subsourrus/rushistbib2.html Guides to Sources on Russian History and Historiography]
*[http://eudocs.lib.byu.edu/index.php/History_of_Russia:_Primary_Documents History of Russia: Primary Documents]