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Socialists took over the government in Russia through the October Revolution of 1917. The fall of monarchy in February 1917 and the events of October are normally called the Russian Revolution.

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In 1914, Tsar Nicholas II rules Russia and its empire. After his father's death he was crowned as the emperor of Russia.

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When the procession of workers led by Father Gapon reached the Winter Palace it was attacked by the police and the Cossacks. Over 100 workers were killed and about 300 wounded. The incident, was known as Bloody Sunday, started a series of events that became known as The 1905 Revolution.

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In the winter 1917, conditions in the capital Petrograd were grim. The layout of the city seemed to emphasis the divisions among its people. The worker's quarters and factories were located on the right bank of river Neva. On the left were the fashionable areas, the Winter Palace, and official buildings, including the palace where the Duma met. In February 1917, food shortages were deeply felt in the worker's quarters.

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Army officials, landowners, and industrialists were influential in the Provisional Government. But the liberals as well as socialists among them worked towards an elected government. Restrictions on public meetings and associations were removed. ' Soviets', like the Petrograd Soviet, were set up everywhere, through no common system of election was followed

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As the conflict between he Provisional Government and the Bolsheviks grew, Lenin feared the Provisional Government would set up a dictatorship. In September, he begun discussions for an uprising against the government. Bolsheviks supporters in the army, soviets and factories were brought together.

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Bolsheviks were totally opposite to private property. Most industry and banks were nationalized in November 1917. This meant the government took over ownership and management. Land was declared social property and peasants were allowed to seize the land of nobility. In cities, Bolsheviks enforced the partition of large houses according to family requirements. They banned the use of the of the titles of aristocracy.

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When the Bolsheviks ordered land redistribution the Russian Army began to break up. Soldiers, mostly peasants, wished to go home for the redistribution and deserted. Non-Bolsheviks socialists, liberals, and supporters of autocracy condemned the Bolshevik uprising. Their leaders moved to south Russia and organized troops to fight the Bolsheviks. During 1918 and 1919 the 'greens' and 'whites' controlled most of the Russian empire. They were backed by French, American, British and Japanese troops - all those forces who were worried at the growth of socialism in Russia.