The Russian Revolution refers to a period of political revolution across Russia in 1917 that ended Tsarist autocracy and led to the rise of Soviet Union under Lenin's Bolshevik Party.
Imagine Russia as a pressure cooker with increasing heat (social unrest). The lid blowing off (the revolution) was inevitable due to rising pressures inside (economic hardship, war losses), resulting in a completely new recipe or system (communism).
Bolsheviks: They were members of the majority faction of Russian Social Democratic Party who became communists after seizing power during October Revolution in 1917.
Vladimir Lenin: Leader of Bolshevik party who played a pivotal role in the Russian Revolution and became the first head of Soviet Russia.
Tsar Nicholas II: The last Emperor of Russia, whose reign saw Imperial Russia go from being one of the foremost great powers of the world to economic and military collapse.
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