4. Communism and the Russian Revolution
In 1917, the Russian Revolution occurred. This was the world’s first glimpse of a significant communist revolution that involved the worker class overthrowing the ruling class to establish a new political order. After toppling the Tsar and ruling class, the Bolsheviks, under the leadership of Vladimir Lenin struggled against other groups, also influenced by Marx to a greater or lesser extent, to achieve power. The result was a form of communism that would come to be known as Leninism. After attaining political power, Lenin appointed other Bolshevik commissars to positions of power within the government.
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