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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.

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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.

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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.

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The Bolshevik Revolution.

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The Mensheviks.

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