They overthrew the Provisional Government of Russia.
No group or person overthrew Lenin. Lenin died of natural causes in 1924 while still in power.
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He was the leader of the Bolshevik Party, which overthrew Czar Nicholas II and his reign of tyranny. Reality checK: The Czar had been deposed in March of 1917. Lenin overthrew that government, not the monarchy of Czar Nicholas.
Lenin never overthrew the Tsar either by himself or with the Bolshevik Party. In 1917, the February Revolution occurred while Lenin was living in Switzerland. During this revolution, the Tsar abdicated the throne, so Lenin had nothing to do with the overthrow of the Tsar. After the Tsar was overthrown, a Provisional Government was set up. Lenin overthrew that government in the October Revolution, but never overthrew the Tsar himself.
Vladimir Lenin successfully overthrew the Provisional Government of Russia. This was the government that in March of 1917 forced the Czar to step down from power. Lenin then successfully overthrew the Provisional government that was largely one of democratic leaders and democratic socialists. Lenin imposed a dictatorship of the Bolshevik Party.
Lenin was famous for being the leader of the Marxist revolutionary party known as the Bolsheviks and then orchestrating the October Revolution which overthrew the existing Provisional Government and set up a government controlled by him and the Bolshevik Party, which later renamed itself the Communist Party.
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The Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, more commonly known as the October Revolution, was led by Vladimir Lenin. Lenin and the Bolsheviks overthrew the Russian Provisional Government, which had overthrown Tsar Nicholas II seven months earlier in the February Revolution (1917). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_Revolution
No Russian communist overthrew the Russian monarchy. The Tsar abdicated in March 1917 after the February Revolution. A non-communist Provisional Government was then set up. In October 1917, the Russian Communist leader overthrew the Provisional Government. The Russian monarchy had already been overthrown.
Russia experienced a Marxist takeover in 1917 during the Russian Revolution. The Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Lenin, overthrew the provisional government and established a communist government.
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