Most people call it the Russian Revolution-- maybe there is a less obvious name for it.
The February Revolution of 1917 is the one which forced the Czar to abdicate. It is also sometimes called the Patriotic Revolution. The October, or Bolshevik Revolution, is the one which overthrew the Provisional Government which replaced the Tsar upon his abdication.
The February Revolution of 1917
Czar Nicholas II
Nicholas II of Russia .
The Tsar (or czar) Nicholas II.
No, they didn't. The Czar was overthrown, actually forced to abdicate, by the workers, soldiers and peasants who revolted in Petrograd (St. Petersburg) in 1917. The February Revolution took Lenin, who was in Switzerland at the time, and the Bolsheviks completely by surprise. The Czar's ministers and military leaders realized the Czar no longer had any power to stop the demonstrations and strikes in Petrograd and convinced him to abdicate in March 1917.
Tsar Nicholas II of Russia was an autocrat until 1917 when he was forced to abdicate the throne during the Russian Revolution.
The equivalent in history is when the Bolsheviks forced the Czar to abdicate his throne.
Alexander Kerensky was the Russian Prime Minister who was forced to resign as a result of the Russian Revolution (and who died in exile). Czar Nicholas II had already abdicated, prior to the revolution (but was executed anyway by the vengeful Bolsheviks).
Tsar Nicholas II's inability to get the army and police forces to obey his orders to stop the demonstrations against him in Petrograd and other cities forced him to abdicate. The thousands of people practically rioting in the streets calling for him to step down included army soldiers and those soldiers that were not in the crowd simply refused to take action against the demonstrators.
At the end of World War I, Kaiser Wilhelm was forced to abdicate. The king refused to abdicate, and was dethroned and imprisoned by his generals.
The Tsar (or Czar) has not had anything to do with Russia since 1917, when the final tsar, Nicholas II, was forced to abdicate his throne due to civil unrest in the country. Prior to this, however, the tsar had complete control over most aspects of the Russian state; he (or she, in some cases) was the monarch who ruled the state.
His military defeat at Waterloo.