Reply #3: Well first of all WWI as the others have said allowed them to take power

[lenidog]

the aftermath also kept them busy afterwords and kept them from even embarking on creating a new society. I mean not only did they have to fight the White Russians during the civil war they had to embark on campaigns to try and reclaim the Baltics (failed), Finland (failed), the Ukraine, Belarus, and the Caucasus's and a border war with Poland. (failed)All of these declared their independence after the fall of Germany since Germany had been awarded them all except Finland at the Treaty of Brest Litivosk