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It led to a takeover of the government by the military.
The October revolution of 1917 followed on that year's February Revolution . In February, the revolution had led to the abdication of the Russian Tsar and to a Republic in which 'moderate' republican groups were the dominant parties. In October, the Communists - who had only been a minor force until then - profited from the fact that the new Russian Government had continued to fight the Germans, which led to continued economic chaos and growing unrest among the Russian army and Navy. The promise to get them out of the war got the army and Navy to side with the Communist, who then had no trouble overthrowing the existing Russian Government. The October Revolution then lead to Russia becoming a Communist State for well over the next 70 years.
Russia had three forms of government during WWI. It started out with a monarchy, then was an anarchy during the beginning of the Russian Revolution. Then Lenin became its Communist dictator.
1. Cause-Communist aggression 2. Effect-Free world victory for Korea/Communist victory for Communists in Vietnam
The most significant effect that the Russian revolution had on Europe was that it made Eastern Europe to experience to an economic failure.