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.
Lenin led the Bolshevik faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labor Party. The RSDLP was split into two factions, Lenin's Bolsheviks and the majority faction Mensheviks. Both Bolsheviks and Mensheviks were Marxist. The Mensheviks were just not as radical as the Bolsheviks. Lenin led the Bolshevik faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Party. The RSDLP was split into two factions, Lenin's Bolsheviks and the majority faction Mensheviks. Both Bolsheviks and Mensheviks were Marxist. The Mensheviks were just not as radical as the Bolsheviks.
The word Bolshevik means in Russian "majority", they formed as a group at the 1903 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party conference in London. They were the radical Marxists while the Mensheviks, "minority", were the moderates. The Bolsheviks were lead by Lenin and grew to a considerable size in 1917. In October, November by our calendar, of 1917 they overthrew the Menshevik government which came to power in the Febuary Revolution and was in the eyes of the majority of Russian workers not much better than the Tsar. After the Russian Civil War, the Bolsheviks (now the Communist Party) started to see the party become a bureacratic nightmare, Lenin tried to reverse this but he died with most of the leaders of the party ignoring his calls for radical reform.
The headquarters of the Russian government is the Kremlin, fortress, in Moscow.
I'm actually having to answer this same question in Modern World Studies.. Anyway, thy overthrew the Provisional government. Once put into power, they withdrew from the war b/c of conflicts with Germany.. They knew they could'nt win both.
No French revolutionary took control of a government in 1917; however a Russian revolutionary, Vladimir Lenin, took control of the Russian government in 1917.
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.
The Russian working class overthrew the existing government to establish a communist state.
The communist Bolsheviks took over during the November Revolution.
After World War I, The Russian Empire ceased to exist, giving rise basically to the Soviet Union (not mentioning the pro-Tsarist White governments during the Russian Civil War), which was officially the first Marxist government.
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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Joseph Stalin is famous for being the leader of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1953. He was part of the Russian Revolution which overthrew the government.
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He never was overthrown, he died of a serious poison found in his stomach [ possibly planted by an enemy]
The Bolsheviks overthrew Alexander Kerensky, the leader of the Russian provisional Government. The Bolsheviks never overthrew the Tsar himself since he had already been forced to abdicate before the Bolsheviks took power. The Bolsheviks did murder the Tsar and all his family.
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