There was a revolution in Russia, because, many people were starving, there was too much discrepancy between the rich and the poor. Russia was beaten badly by the Axis in WWI. The Russian rulers were incompetent, selfish people who got their power because they were born into it. There were too many things wrong with the country and the only way most people felt that positive changes could be brought about was with a revolution. Lenin was a very convincing speaker who gave the people the idea that he had better ideas to solve the country's problems than the Czar, Nicholas did.
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There had been numerous Russian revolutions during the long history of Russia. The one in late 1917, was an overthrow of the Provisional government that caused the Russian Czar to step down. In the Fall of 1917, Vladimir Lenin and his Bolshevik Party staged the one that would begin the Dictatorship of the communist party under Lenin.
The people of Russia were suffering, especially with poverty and diseases, and the Czar, the ruler of Russia was ignoring it.
The Bolsheviks, a group inside Russia was fed up with the Royal family and started the revolution to take them out of power. The Royal family had controlled Russia for over 300 years
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The first revolution in Russia in 1917 occurred in February according to the Julian calendar which was in effect within Russia at that time. In the western world, which used the Gregorian calendar, it occurred in March.
After the revolution in Russia was not kings.
The economic loss in Russia and the revolution started in Russia caused Russia to withdraw from the war.
It managed to overthrow the Csar and Imperial Russia, but it failed to reach its utopian goals.