At the time of World War One, Russia's czarist rulers had entered with good intensoins to win
land and gain kwnoledge in Eastern Europe. The czar not taking certain things into
consideration, felt the stresses of the war and had his czarist state destroyed after over 5 million casualties were killed and major food shortages at home, and throughout the military.
If this was not bad enough for the czar, what used to be a harmless street demonstration, was turning into a quite harmful riot of angry Russians. They rose up against the czar, Czar Nicholas II, in an attempt to overthrow the autocratic government. They were successful. Czar Nicholas II abdicated his throne and the government collasped.
With the arrival of Vladimer Ilich Lenin, the Russian Revolution begins. Back in from living in ex
After Lenin gained power, Lenin made a mistake by letting previously scheduled elections to still take place. In the November 1917 polls, the Bolshevik candidates hold just under 25 percent of the vote meanwhile moderate socialists raked in more than 40 percent of the total count. About to enter a civil war, Lenin sent his troops to close the constituent assembly. This would later emerge into a Lenist and Stalinist tyranny.
Russians upset and discontent with the way of the present czarist government, and also facing many defeats in World War One, form riots and are rebelling.Lenin sees the way things are going and takes the Bolsheviks and riots and forms one of the world's most powerful revolutions." Ten days that shook the world " is how these events were described by an Americian journalist named
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