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Lenin organized his Bolshevik forces and decided to stage a revolt that would seize Petrograd's power (formerly known as St Petersburg). On the night of October, they seized the Winter Palace and ousted the Provisional Government. The event became known as the October Revolution. The next day the world was amazed to hear of the first Communist government in history. However, only after a brutal civil war resulted in millions of deaths that the Communist were able to take full control of Russia.

Many factors caused the Russian Revolution. The autocratic Tsarist regime was unwilling to change with their society. The Regime's repressive policies and scandals further undermined its legitimacy. However, this did not make the Russian Revolution inevitable. The catalyst for the revolution was the First World War. It accentuated the tensions in Russian society and unleashed forces that the Romanov regime could not control. The suffering people and the common soldiers grew impatient and demanded immediate change and, above all, peace. The failure of the Tsarist regime to end the war resulted in the collapse of the Romanov Dynasty.

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