Collapse of The Russian Empire and the rise of the Bolshevik Revolution
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Rise Of The Bolshevik
Under Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin), the Bolsheviks gained power and were popular among the Russian people. The government had been taken over by a rightest interim government that resembled the old one. The government decided to stay in World War I for the same reasons the old government entered. This government was not very popular among the Russian population. The Bolsheviks sabotaged the interim government by educating the poor and encouraging civil disobedience, which was oppressed by the interim government. Meanwhile the the eastern front of world war was not going well for the Russians. There were multiple failed military offensive allowed much of the people to align itself with the Bolshevik movement. The revolution began organizing an armed takeover arming and training and planning carefully. On November 7, 1917 armed revolutionaries and discontent citizens seized telegraph stations, police stations, army stations and finally the winter palace. The Tsars residence were the interim government resided. Russia would fall into a civil war between communist reds and monarchy whites. The war ended in a red victory officially creating the Soviet Union and the first communist state.