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The last tsar Lenin whipped up
Tsar Nicholas II of Russia ABDICATED (stepped down) the crowds upon
after the February Revolution of 1917, ending 300 years his return.
of Romanov rule. Mounting casualties in World War I,
combined with mass anger at his blocking of
democratic reforms, forced him from power,
leading to a people’s government. Nicholas (middle) and his
family were imprisoned
after he abdicated.

By the way…
As my hero Karl Marx,

Lenin the father of Communism,
said, “The workers have
nothing to lose… but
their chains!”
returns

A revolutionary

turns Russia into a

COMMUNIST state

Bolshevik troops storm
the Winter Palace, where
the tsar used to live.
Revolutionary returns
Vladimir Lenin had been banished from Russia for
urging workers to seize and then share power equally, a
revolutionary idea that is called COMMUNISM. Russia’s
enemy in the war, Germany, offered him safe passage
back to Russia, hoping he would take Russia out of the
war. Lenin returned in 1917 to a country in disarray.

The October Revolution
In October 1917, Lenin told his political party, the How it changed
BOLSHEVIKS, it was time to revolt. The weak government The USSR became the
gave little resistance as Bolshevik troops seized key world’s first communist
government buildings. Lenin took Russia out of the war state, and inspired similar
and declared Russia a workers’ republic, which, along revolutions in China, Cuba,
with other parts of the former Tsarist empire, became the Vietnam, and North Korea.
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) in 1922. the world
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