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In November 1917, using the workers' discontent with the Empire, Lenin, the leader of the Communist Party, overthrew the government and executed every member of the Czar's family.   

In November 1917, using the workers' discontent with the Empire, Lenin, the leader of the Communist Party, overthrew the government and executed every member of the Czar's family.   

Lenin was one of the most influential persons in all of history.  He was both a thinker and a revolutionary, which is a rare combination.  An atheist, he personally converted in 1889 to Marxism (as previously formulated by Karl Marx).  He obtained a law degree shortly afterwards, and by 1895 was a subversive who was arrested and sent to the frigid Siberia as punishment.  Once he served his time he left for Western Europe, where he developed his ideas further and became a leader of the Bolsheviks.  He returned to Russia after czar abdicated in March 1917, and then Lenin led the Bolsheviks to power in the "October Revolution" (which was really in November under our Western calendar).  He then ruled the Soviet Union under Marxism-Leninism (communism) that remained in force until the 1990s.

Lenin was one of the most influential persons in all of history.  He was both a thinker and a revolutionary, which is a rare combination.  An atheist, he personally converted in 1889 to Marxism (as previously formulated by Karl Marx).  He obtained a law degree shortly afterwards, and by 1895 was a subversive who was arrested and sent to the frigid Siberia as punishment.  Once he served his time he left for Western Europe, where he developed his ideas further and became a leader of the Bolsheviks.  He returned to Russia after czar abdicated in March 1917, and then Lenin led the Bolsheviks to power in the "October Revolution" (which was in November under our Western calendar).  He then ruled the Soviet Union under Marxism-Leninism (communism) that remained in force until the 1990s.