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| | World War I : WWI |
 | | Petersburg culminated in the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II and the appointment of a weak centrist provisional government, which shared power with the socialists of the Petrograd Soviet[?]. |
 | | This division of power led to confusion and chaos, both on the front and at home, and the army became progressively less able to effectively resist the Germans. |
 | | Meanwhile, the war, and the government, became more and more unpopular, and the discontent was strategically used by the Bolshevik Party, led by Vladimir Lenin, in order to gain power. |
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