The Bolsheviks moved the capital of Russia from Petrograd to which city in 1918?
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Correct answer: Moscow
The capital was moved to Moscow because Petrograd was too vulnerable to German attack and was seen as a symbol of the old Tsarist regime. The Kremlin became the new nerve center of the Soviet state.
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