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Russian Revolution
The
Russian Revolution
is the collective term for a pair of
revolutions
in
Russia
in 1917, which dismantled the
Tsarist autocracy
and led to the eventual rise of the
Soviet Union
. The
Russian Empire
collapsed with the abdication of
Emperor
Nicholas II
, and the old regime was replaced by a
provisional government
during the first revolution of February 1917 (March in the
Gregorian calendar
; the older
Julian calendar
was in use in Russia at the time). In the second revolution that October, the Provisional Government was removed and replaced with a
Bolshevik
(
Communist
) government.
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