More than 25 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the attempt to build a democracy in its place, Russia has once again become an authoritarian state. The same inability to build democratic institutions plagued the leaders of the February Revolution of 1917, which led to the Bolsheviks gaining power later that year.
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A woman dances during the official ceremony of the tying of red scarves around their necks, symbolizing their initiation into the Young Pioneer Youth communist group, created in the Soviet Union for children 10-14 years old, in Moscow's Red square on May 21.
