The human cost in WWII was over 75 million in total. 40 million civilians were brutally killed due to Genocide, diseases,massacres, mass-bombings, and starvation. The effect on comptempery society allowed the rise of the Soviet Union and the United States. For both their international involvement increased severely.
In Russia, efforts to build communism began after Tsar Nicholas II lost his power during the February Revolution, which started in 1917, and ended with the dissolution of the USSR in 1991.
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