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The first step would have been to avoid war with Japan during the Russo-Japanese War 1904-1905. This war cost the Russians two Battleship Fleets and caused the Battleship Potemkin to mutiny in 1905 (Russian Battleship Potemkin was from the only remaining Russian Fleet stationed in the Black Sea); Japanese intelligence staff also financed some of the Bolshevik covert operations which were undermining the Tsar (whom Japan was at war with); including the financing of Lenin himself. Had the Russo-Japanese War not occurred. Russia would have at least survived past WW1. As history records, Tsarist Russia fell in 1917, one year before the end of WW1, which was 1918.
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