What happened during the Russian Revolution?

During the Russian Revolution of 1917, revolutionaries overthrew the tsarist government, and the Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Lenin, took power later that year. Therefore, the best answer is “Vladimir Lenin and the communists overthrew the Russian tsar.” Gorbachev’s reforms and the Soviet Union’s dissolution happened much later, while Stalin’s major changes came after the revolution.

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