The Bolsheviks seized power from the Russian Provisional Government headed by Alexander Kerensky. They did NOT seize power from Tsar Nicholas II. He had been deposed eight months earlier and was no...
To take control of Russia and spread Marxism throughout the world. They would have done it earlier than 1917 if they had been able, but Russia was weakened by the beating it took from Germany in...
The Bolsheviks seized power from the Russian Provisional Government in November 1917 (October according to the Russian calendar). At that time the Provisional Government was headed by Alexander...