The Russian Revolution - A History of Humanitarian Disasters

Bolsheviks had no links to the peasantry who formed the mass majority of russians. So their adventurous storming of the winter palace 19 17 seemed destined to go down as reckless folly that led directly to their mass arrest and almost certain execution. Then, after defying the odds and holding on through the first tumultuous months, russia was consumed by three more years of a multi front civil war,. foreign invasions, border conflicts, peasant insurrections, workers strikes and military mutinies. By the time the famine was over, it had probably killed upwards of ten million people in just a little over a single year.