Russian Revolution
Given the uncertain situation caused by the Russian October Revolution in 1917 and the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk in March 1918, some indigenes elected Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg as head of the United Baltic Duchy, and the second duke of Urach as king of Lithuania, but these plans collapsed in November 1918.
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“‘I suppose with the French Revolution for a father and the Russian Revolution for a mother, you can very well dispense with a family,’ he observed.”
—Doris Lessing (b. 1919)