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Russian Revolution is the collective term for a pair of revolutions in Russia in 1917, which dismantled the Tsarist autocracy and led to the eventual rise of the Soviet Union. The Russian Empire collapsed with the abdication of Emperor Nicholas II, and the old regime was replaced by a provisional government during the first revolution of February 1917 (March in the Gregorian calendar; the older Julian calendar was in use in Russia at the time). In the second revolution that October, the Provisional Government was removed and replaced with a Bolshevik (Communist) government.

Vladimir Lenin was the founder and primary leader of the Bolshevik Party, which led the October Revolution in Russia in 1917.

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Montesquieu, Rousseau, and Voltaire were Enlightenment thinkers whose ideas influenced the French Revolution. Karl Marx lived in the 19th century and was not associated with the 1789 revolution.

After Lenin's death in 1924, a power struggle happened for a brief time. Stalin then came to power by suppressing all political parties. He then created Marxism-Leninism.

USSR didn't suffer much due to the Great Depression as its economy was not deeply integrated and linked with that of western countries. In fact, it benefited to a certain level by acquiring the services of specialist farmers, engineers etc who were finding it hard to find jobs in their own countries.

The Russian Revolution of 1905, was instrumental in the transformation of the Russian government from an autocracy into a constitutional monarchy. Bloody Sunday is the name given to the events of Sunday, on 22 January  1905 in St Petersburg, Russia, when unarmed demonstrators led by Father Georgy Gapon were fired upon by soldiers of the Imperial Guard as they marched towards the Winter Palace to present a petition to Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. Officials recorded that about 96  people were dead and 333 were injured.

On February 21, 1848, The Communist Manifesto, written by Karl Marx with the assistance of Friedrich Engels, was published in London by a group of German-born revolutionary socialists known as the Communist League.

Tsar Nicholas II was the last Czar of the Russian empire, succeeded his father in 1894. Nicholas and his wife Alexandra of Hesse were coroneted as ruler in 1896. As a ruler he instructed the building of the Trans-Siberian railroad. He took charge of the military during World War I and left his wife and her advisor to internal social affairs. Years of discontent in policies in Russia and led the Russian revolution and in 1918 Nicholas and his family were executed. It was under his authority that Russia aligned itself with Serbia that began a cascade toward war. With his defeat, Russia could no longer support the war and retracted.

Bloody Sunday is the name given to the events of Sunday, 22 January 1905 in St Petersburg, Russia, when unarmed demonstrators led by Father Georgy Gapon were fired upon by soldiers of the Imperial Guard as they marched towards the Winter Palace to present a petition to Tsar Nicholas II of Russia.