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Nicholas II, son of Alexander III, was the last Tsar of Russia and he belonged to the Romanov family. Nicholas took the throne following his father's death because of kidney disease. A year later, Nicholas had married princess Alix and assumed the Russian throne in 1895.  Nicholas wanted Russia to be engaged in colonial possessions so he encouraged Russian Expansion in Manchuria (Region in China). This led to a war with Japan which Russia lost. As far as further contributions, there are very little since Nicholas was considered by many to be a weak monarch.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/nicholas_ii.shtml

http://www.encyclopedia.com/people/history/russian-soviet-and-cis-history-biographies/nicholas-ii-russia

https://www.biography.com/people/nicholas-ii-21032713

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Trotsky took a leading role in directing countermeasures for the soviet, while reassuring the public that his Military Revolutionary Committee meant only to defend the Congress of Soviets. Trotsky continued to function as the military leader of the Revolution when Kerensky vainly attempted to retake Petrograd with loyal troops. He organized and supervised the forces that broke Kerensky’s efforts at the Battle of Pulkovo on November 13. Immediately afterward he joined Lenin in defeating proposals for a coalition government including Mensheviks and Socialist Revolutionaries.https://www.britannica.com/biography/Leon-Trotsky

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The Russian Revolution took place in 1917. It was one of the most explosive political events.The Bolsheviks were led by Vladimir Lenin, he seized power and destroyed the tradition of csarist rule.The Bolsheviks would eventually become the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
http://www.history.com/topics/russian-revolution

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Born on December 18, 1879, in Gori, Georgia, Joseph Stalin rose to power as General Secretary of the Communist Party, becoming a Soviet dictator upon Vladimir Lenin's death.  Joseph Stalin ruled the Soviet Union for more than two decades, instituting a reign of terror while modernizing Russia and helping to defeat Nazism. https://www.biography.com/people/joseph-stalin-9491723

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Karl Marx is the famed writer of the communist manifesto. He was a jack of all trades including history, economics, socialism, and a revolutionary. His writing were always talking about a belief known a Marxism.

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Leon Trotsky was born Lev Davidovich Bronstein on 7 November 1879 in Yanovka, Ukraine. In the Russian Revolution Leon Trotsky was a leader in the Russian Revolution, he led the outbreak in Russia in February. Leon Trotsky inspired highs and tragic lows of the international socialist movement in the 20th century.

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·         https://www.britannica.com/biography/Leon-Trotsky

·         https://socialistworker.org/2010/09/02/legacy-of-leon-trotsky

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Vladimir Lenin founded the Russian Communist party, and led the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 and was the first head of the soviet union.

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Trotsky hailed the outbreak of revolution in Russia in February as the opening of the permanent revolution he had predicted.  As foreign commissar, Trotsky’s first charge was to implement the Bolsheviks’ program of peace by calling for immediate armistice negotiations among the warring powers. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Leon-Trotsky

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Joseph Stalin was the dictator of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. He ruled by terror & even killed his own citizens. He was a ruthless leader. He was born Dec. 18th 1878. but he made a new birth date for himself to be the 21st. Joseph Stalin grew up hard. he was poor & an only child.

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Nikolai Aleksandrovich Romanov was born near St Petersburg on 18 May 1868.

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In 1912, Lenin, then in exile in Switzerland, appointed Joseph Stalin to serve on the first Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party. Three years later, in November 1917, the Bolsheviks seized power in Russia. The Soviet Union was founded in 1922, with Lenin as its first leader. During these years, Stalin had continued to move up the party ladder, and in 1922 he became secretary general of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, a role that enabled him to appoint his allies to government jobs and grow a base of political support.

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Bolsheviki, member of a wing of the Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party, which, led by Lenin, seized control of the government in Russia (October 1917) and became the dominant political power.  Although both factions participated together in the Russian Revolution of 1905 and went through periods of apparent reconciliation (about 1906 and 1910), their differences increased. The Bolsheviks continued to insist upon a highly centralized, disciplined, professional party. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Bolshevik

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During the early years of the Social Democratic Party, there were often disputes among the party's leadership over its form and strategy. Vladimir Lenin argued for a small party of professional revolutionaries who would lead a large contingent of non-party supporters. Julius Martov advocated for a larger, more democratic organization of supporters. Leon Trotsky tried to reconcile the two factions, resulting in numerous clashes with both groups' leaders. Many of the Social Democrats, including the ambitious Joseph Stalin, sided with Lenin. Trotsky's neutrality was seen as disloyal.

On January 22, 1905, unarmed demonstrators marching against the Russian Tsar were killed by the Imperial Guard. When word reached Leon Trotsky, he returned to Russia to support the uprisings. By the end of 1905, he had become a leader of the movement. In December, the rebellion was crushed, and Trotsky was arrested and once again sent to Siberia. At his trial, he put on a spirited defense and increased his popularity among the party's elite. In January 1907, Trotsky escaped prison and traveled to Europe, where he spent 10 years in exile in various cities, including Vienna, Zurich, Paris and New York, spending much of the time writing for Russian revolutionary journals, including Pravda, and advocating an anti-war policy.

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The person I did was Karl Marx . Karl began writing for the liberal democratic newspaper Rheinische Zeitung, and he became the paper’s editor in 1842. The Prussian government banned the paper as too radical the following year. With his new wife, Jenny von Westphalen, Marx moved to Paris in 1843. Karl became a German Philosopher and revolutionary socialist he published the communist Manifesto and Das Kapital anticapitalist works that form the basis of Marxism .

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The philosopher, social scientist, historian and revolutionary, Karl Marx, is without a doubt the most influential socialist thinker to emerge in the 19th century. Although he was largely ignored by scholars in his own lifetime, his social, economic and political ideas gained rapid acceptance in the socialist movement after his death in 1883.Marx became a member of the Young Hegelian movement. This group, which included the theologians Bruno Bauer and David Friedrich Strauss, produced a radical critique of Christianity and, by implication, the liberal opposition to the Prussian autocracy.

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When he succeeded his father—Czar Alexander II—Nicholas II had little experience in government. He was widely seen as a politically weak and indecisive leader.

His poor handling of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905, subsequent 1905 uprising of Russian Workers—known as Bloody Sunday—and Russia’s involvement in World War I hastened the fall of the Russian Empire.