Czar Nichloas II
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Russia's last emperor, was responsible for touching off the first part of the Russian Revolution, the February Revolution. Russian people including workers, soldiers and peasants were dissatisfied with the way he was running the governmentHe was unable or refused to rectify these situations so citizens of Petrograd and other cities broke out into mass demonstrations against him and his government. He abdicated the throne once he realized that he no longer had control of police or military forces to stop the rioting.
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Karl Marx
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The founder of Marxism
Karl Marx was a German philosopher who, in essence, founded Marxism and fueled ideas of communism. His famous works The Communist Manifesto and Das Capital influenced many revolutionaries around the world.
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Karl Marx was a German philosopher who, in essence, founded Marxism and fueled ideas of communism. His famous works The Communist Manifesto and Das Capital influenced many revolutionaries around the world.
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Vladimir Lenin
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Lenin was the mastermind behind the October Revolution. He was put into exile in early 1917, but the Germans thought he would subvert the morale of the Russian Army, so they sent him on a train to Petrograd. From there he organized the group known as the Bolsheviks. He made sure that Bolsheviks were organising in the army and navy and in the large factories across the empire. He also began plotting for the provisional government's downfall. He attempted to put his plan in action in July 1917, but it failed, and he fled to Finland. But the provisional government needed his Bolsheviks in order to help quell a Tsarist mutiny in the army, and soon he was able to return. During the events of the October Revolution he directed the activities from the Bolshevik headquarters at the Smolny Institute. Had Lenin not been in Russia, it is highly unlikely that the Bolsheviks would have begun the October Revolution.
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Leon Trotsky
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Trotsky was head of the Red Army, for one thing. Trotsky played a vital role in the build up of revolutionary concepts within Russia during 1917, following his return from exile in May 1917. He joined the Bolshevik party in July that year, and participated along with Lenin in the failed uprising of his party in the same month. As a result of his failed efforts, he was imprisoned by the Kerensky government, but was released in September in order to maintain his role within the September uprising of the Bolshevik's. In November he was appointed by Lenin as peoples comissioner for foreign affairs, where he played out the rest of his year in the heavily influential position appointed to him.
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