Russia (World Revolution)

The Russian Democratic Federative Republic is a multi-party socialist democracy and a powerful military power. It is the first socialist state to emerge and survive as well as a founding member of the Internationalist Defense and Assistance Pact with France, Ukraine, Finland, and Italy. For centuries, Russia had been governed under the autocratic rule of the Czar and the Eastern Orthodox Church until the February Revolution toppled the last Russian monarch, Nicholas II, and brought an end to Russian involvement in World War II. Russia would go on to have its first democratic elections, where socialist parties would achieve an overwhelming majority and the Socialist Revolutionaries and Bolsheviks (later known as the Russian Communist Party) would form a governing anti-war coalition. Reactionary forces within the provisional government would be forced out and workers and peasants would seize power in the form of local soviets (in the cities) and zemstvos (in the rural areas). The early years of the republic would be rocky, characterized by rebellions and foreign wars in Georgia, Ukraine, and China. Eventually, Russia and the socialist powers would come into conflict with Germany and the central powers in World War II and would eventually see socialist domination of most of the European continent. Following World War II, Russia would become a world power and compete with the united states in the ensuing cold war.