No, they were not. The czar was toppled in the February Revolution of 1917 when the army and police refused to obey his orders to quell rioting and demonstrations against his rule were going on in Petrograd, Moscow and other cities. An interim government called the Provisional Government was created to govern until a Constitutional Assembly could be elected to make a new constitution.
The "communists" (at that time still named Bolsheviks) toppled the Provisional Government in the October Revolution of 1917. By this time, the czar had already been defeated and was no longer in power.
So, to be precise, the czar was not defeated by the communists.
Alexander Kerensky and the Russian Provisional Government were defeated in the October Revolution of 1917 when Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks overthrew it. Tsar Nicholas II was defeated in the February Revolution of 1917 when he was forced to abdicate the throne.
The Bolsheviks defeated the Provisional Government in the sense that it succeeded in overthrowing it in their favor. Later, after the Revolution, the Bolsheviks and their supporters defeated the White forces that were either loyal to the Tsar or to the Provisional Government or simply against the Bolsheviks; however that was in the Russian Civil War, not the Revolution. The Bolsheviks took advantage of the bad situation that Russia was in after the fall of Czar Nicholas.
The Bolshevik Revolution.
The Mensheviks.
They assumed power in 1917 and they had total control by 1921.
The Bolshevik Party under Vladimir Lenin took over Russia in 1917. In March 1918, the Bolsheviks changed their name to the Communist Party.
300 years of Tsarist rule ended in 1917 when Tsar Nicholas II abdicated in March after the first revolution in Russia in 1917. Although the Tsar abdicated in March, Russia was not taken over by the Communists until October 1917.
I do not know of British troops in Russia in 1917 or Churchills involvement therein. British troops were sent to northern Russia in the early 1920s.... As I say I do not know of Churchills part in this eneavour.
It was 1917 when Lenin and the Bolsheviks in a nearly bloodless coup took over the Provisional Government that had been in place since the February 1917 revolution. The Provisional Government was dissolved and Lenin assumed power in Russia. It wasn't until 1920 that his hold on Russia was solidified, because the Russian Civil War soon broke out and lasted until 1920.
I think it was the communists
Nicholas II (executed by the communists in 1917)
They assumed power in 1917 and they had total control by 1921.
Russia. (The Bolshevik Revolution of 1917).
Joseph Stalin became the leader of the communists and Dictator of Communist Russia in 1917, the same year that Russia pulled out of the 1st world war.
Communists in Germany in 1919 who wanted a revolution in Germany similar to the 1917 revolution in Russia
October Revolution 1917, Palace Revolution.
During the Russian Revolutions of 1917, they were known as the Bolsheviks.
The Communists were a political faction in imperial Russia, until they took over parts of the country in the revolution of 1917. However, Russia had by then already exited WW1.
Russia did pull out of the war, in 1917. They suffered from a revolution, which overthrew the Tsar, and then a second revolution later in 1917 brought the communists to power. They would eventually take over and rule until 1991.
The Bolshevik Party under Vladimir Lenin took over Russia in 1917. In March 1918, the Bolsheviks changed their name to the Communist Party.
Because in 1917, Russia had two revolutions and their government was overthrown, replaced by communists. The communists believed that the war was just a bunch of rich countries fighting over things that didn't really belong to them, so they refused to have anything to do with it.