December 8th, 1869
Lenin and the Bolsheviks came into power on October 26, the culmination of the two day October Revolution. Prior to that, the Russian Provisional Government was in power. Arrest warrants were out for Lenin since July, 1917 and he had to flee the country to Finland to avoid capture. He snuck back in under disguise to organize the October insurrection which brought him and the Bolsheviks into power.
Lenin and the Bolsheviks began their rise to power in earnest when Lenin returned to Russia from exile in Switzerland in April 1917 after the February 1917 Revolution which toppled the Tsar. From then on, Lenin and the Bolsheviks worked against the new Provisional Government by promising an end to World War 1, redistribution of land to peasants and an end to shortages of food and manufactured goods. They spread their revolutionary ideas among the soldiers, workers and peasants until they were able to overthrow the Provisional Government in the October Revolution of 1917 and take over full political governmental power in Russia.
Alexander Kerensky was associated with Russia. He was the second and final head of the Russian Provisional Government, before it was overthrown by Vladimir Lenin and his Bolshevik supporters. The "Soviet Union" did not come into existence until December 1922, well after Kerensky had been deposed.
The power of the government is the people.
Tsar Nicholas abdicated the throne during the February Revolution and was taken into the custody of the Provisional Government partly for his own protection and partly to keep him from being restored to the throne. He was held with the idea that he would be exiled to England, but the Bolsheviks took power from the Provisional Government in the October Revolution and forced the Provisional Government to hand Nicholas and his family over to them. In July 1918, during the Russian Civil War, the Bolsheviks murdered Nicholas and his entire family in order to ensure that he would never be able to come back to power again.
1985
Russia
He underestimated the power of the Russia winter.
Russia does not have a government. Since the fall of Nazi Germany during ww2 and the collapse of the Berlin wall, government has always come in a form of chaos in USSR.
Joseph Stalin come to power in Russia after the Russian Revolution in 1917. He was the secretary general of the communists party which did not want Leon Trotsky to ascend to power after the death of Lenin.
the power of a government comes from its citizens willingness to maintain its power by going to war or paying it taxes