Travesties | Compare and Contrast
1917: On November 6, the Bolshevik revolution begins in Petrograd, Russia. Government offices are seized, and the revolutionaries take over the Romanovs' Winter Palace.
1991: On December 17, president Mikhail Gorbachev orders the dissolution of the Soviet Union, and a new Commonwealth of Independent States is formed by the countries that formerly made up the U.S.S.R.
1914: World War I begins and lasts until 1918, the largest war to date. Approximately ten million are killed and twenty million are wounded.
1973: The United States signs a...
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