Russian Tsars Defeat

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This essay is about the defeat of the Russian Tsars during the twentieth century. A tsar is an autocratic ruler or leader. It all started on the year 1917 the date November 6 and 7.

During the year 1917 it was the year of explosive political events. The leader of the Bolshevik Party was Vladimir Lenin. During that year there was a provisional government had been assembled by a group of leaders from the Russia’s bourgeois capitalist class. Lenin seized power and destroyed the tradition of csarist rule.

When it was November 6 and 7 1917 there was launched a coup. It was nearly a bloodless coup d’etat against the Duma’s provisional government. The Bolsheviks and their allies occupied government buildings and other strategic location

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