Russian Revolutions

Russia became the first nation ruled by communists.

The 1917 Bolshevik Revolution was the communists over throwing the Tsarist government.

--Edit Well, firstly, the answer above is relevent, but not the answer to the question asked.

When the October Revolution in Russia came about in 1917, there were lots of other political groups in Russia besides the Bolsheviks. The Bolsheviks, led by Lenin, felt that they alone deserved to rule Russia, and didn't believe in a coalition government. Originally, Lenin had a Constituent Assembly, but since the Bolsheviks gained less seats in the vote than the Left SRs, he dissolved the Constituent Assembly, basically rendering Russia a single-party state. This obviously annoyed the rest of the communist groups, which joined in the general unrest. The Russian civil war came about for several reasons; including the general unrest with the Bolsheviks being in power from:

Ex-Tsarist supporters

Army generals

Clerical associations

Rightist groups

Left SRs + Mensheviks

FOREIGN SUPPORT - Allied powers - British, France, etc.

The Russian civil war was basically the "Reds" [Bolsheviks] vs. the "Whites" [everyone mentionned above]

The foreign support was there because the Bolsheviks saw the First World War as an "Imperialist" war, and not their business, and so withdrew Russia [The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk]. They also refused to pay back the war loans to the Allied forces, as they did not feel they had to, being a new government after the Provisional Government. The Allies also felt that if they defeated the Bolsheviks were defeated, Russia would rejoin the war and fight Germany on another border.

As Churchill put it, England wished to "Strangle the Bolshevik Revolution in the cradle." The allied forces had a fear of communism. The Russian Civil war was basically inevitable, which the leaders of the Bolshevik party was aware of - which was a leading reason as to why the Bolshevik party left the First World War, as they knew they'd need the men and ammunition [but also because the 1st World War had been the demise of both the Tsar and the Provisional Government] - as Russia was in a critical period of revolution and reform.

Technically, the North (Union) and South (Confederates) were the main participants. No other countries, that I know of, participated because it was strictly a war against Americans. Several African Americans also joined the war. Were you searching for a list of PEOPLE? Because that would be hundreds of thousands.

Trotsky was mad at Stalin because he did not have a major role in the Russian Revolution.

actually Russians fighted with Russians, the people who liked the king and wanted to keep him VS the people who disliked the king and wanted to Form the USSR

The Russian revolution of 1905 had its roots in the Russo-Japanese War and economic and political issues.

The main leaders on the side of the Imperial and Provisional governments were Nicholas II, Alexander Kerensky, and Georgy Lvov. The main leaders and commanders on the side of the Bolsheviks, the Petrograd Soviets, and the Leftist Socialists were Vladimir Lenin, Lev Kamenev, and Leon Trosky.

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The "Russian Revolution" consisted of two revolutions in 1917. The February Revolution began on February 24, 1917 (New Style: March 5) and forced Tsar Nicholas II to abdicate in favor of a Provisional Government.

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The October Revolution began on October 25, 1917 (New Style: November 7) in which Vladimir Lenin and his Bolshevik supporters overthrew the Provisional Government.

Commonly referred to as the February Revolution the French Revolution of 1848 was predominantly caused by popular discontent of the French middle class. The reason for this was a mixture of unhappiness that Louis Philippe, who was nicknamed the 'Bourgeois Monarch', would not enlarge the country's voting base any higher than a thirtieth of the population and the anger that the government had moved away from its previous heavily Republican view to a more conservative one.

The February Revolution in 1917 did not affect it at all, because the new Provisional Government kept it going just as the Tsar had done.

The October Revolution eventually ended Russia's participation in the war when Lenin entered into the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with Germany. After that, Germany moved the military forces that were fighting the Russians over to fight the French and English on the western front. That increase in military force could have won the war for the Central Powers but then the United States entered the war and added its forces to the Allies.

Tsar Nicolas II of the Romanovs.

No Russian czar was overthrown by the Bolshevik Revolution. Czar Nicholas II abdicated the throne in March 1917 after the February Revolution. Then the Provisional Government was set up. Then on October 25-26, 1917 (Old Style), the Bolshevik Revolution overthrew the Provisional Government.

both wanted equality from the king and to be treated well. after both were heavily taxed by their king, they rebelled. all they wanted was some representation and to be taken care of

Tsar Nicholas II. He was forced to resign.

Two wars set the stage for the Russian Revolutions of 1917. The first was the Russo-Japanese War in which Russia suffered a humiliating defeat. Soldiers were very dissatisfied with the Tsar's mishandling of the war and indifference to their living conditions. The second war, which directly led to the revolution was World War 1.

Although historians argue that history repeats, and in theory both the October and February Revolutions were the same story, one was a coup d'état taking advantage of political and social unrest and the other was a spontaneous uprising that included elements of a coup.

The Russian Revolution of 1905 led to limits on the czar's power, but the Russian Revolution of 1917 ended the czarist system altogether.

The main leader of the October revolution, also known as the Bolshevik or Soviet Revolution, was Vladamir Lenin. Lenin prepared the defence line for this particular revolution,the careful planing of this defence line was the cause of their victory.

At the time of the revolution, the Russian Empire still was using the ancient Julian calendar, which had been discarded some 150 years earlier by most Western countries. The result was that each day in Russia was dated 13 days earlier than the same day in the West.

According to the old calendar, the date of the Bolshevik revolution was October 25. But according to the new Gregorian calendar, the date actually was November 7.

Only after the Bolsheviks established the Soviet Union did the country adopt the new calendar. So it was the Bolsheviks themselves who were responsible for changing the date of their October Revolution of October 25 to the national celebration November 7.

Not all czars were hated by Russian people. It doesn't mean if a person is czar, king, emperor or president. People hate their leaders when they don't do their job well. Moreover, Russian people usually loved their czars. They thought that czars didn't know how miserable life of their people was.

During the Russian Revolution, propaganda used included dissemination of revolutionary ideas, teachings of Marxism, and theoretical and practical knowledge of Marxism economics.

The main consequence was that Vladimir Lenin and the Bolshevik/Communist Party became the undisputed governmental power in Russia once all organized military opposition to them was crushed. The Bolsheviks were able to eliminate all political opposition to them as well making Russia a government by party and eventually a totalitarian one.

It also paved the way to the formation of the Soviet Union, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, in 1922. Once Lenin held sway over lands comprising the Russian empire, he was able to bring the Ukraine, Belorussia and the Transcaucasus Federation together to form the USSR.