PART ONE: First Things First: Beginnings in History, to 500 B

• The Trans-Siberian railroad seems to have facilitated the spread of Bolshevik activity, because several cities lying on or near the railroad were centers of Bolshevism, including Novosibirsk, Omsk, Cheliabinsk, Samara, and Kazan, and because the railroad begins in Moscow, where the Bolsheviks took over power. ................
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