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Within months, a small revolutionary party seized power and changed the course of the twentieth century. In 1917, an empire collapsed. Empire in Red: Lenin, the Bolshevik Revolution, and the Birth of Soviet Power tells the dramatic story of how hunger, war, land hunger, political failure, and revolutionary ambition brought down the Romanov dynasty and opened the door to Lenin’s Bolsheviks. From the blood-soaked memory of 1905 to the bread lines of Petrograd, from Lenin’s return in a sealed train to the storming of the Winter Palace, from the promise of “peace, land, and bread” to the terror and famine of civil war, this book follows the people, ideas, and crises that transformed Russia from an autocratic empire into the world’s first Soviet state.