1. Civil War: Many people died in fighting and from hunger.

2. Economic Problems: Lots of poverty and shortages.

3. Famine: Many starved because of bad policies.

4. Repression: The government hurt people who disagreed.

5. Stalin's Rule: Millions died under Stalin’s harsh rule.

6. Loss of Freedom: Free speech was punished.

7. Isolation: Russia’s economy struggled from being cut off from other countries.

The Russian Revolution began in Petrograd, Russia in march 1917.