... own Provisional Government, forcing Tsar Nicholas II to abdicate his thrown and ending centuries of Romanov rule. In October, the Provisional Government was itself overthrown by socialist radicals under Vladimir I. Lenin. Lenin was a Marxist revolutionary with the desire to create a socialist Russia. However, as in all successful revolutions, the leaders begin with idealist principles that are forced to change ... they did not immediately embark upon wholesale nationalization of industry: the first nationalization decrees concerned only individual large concerns like the Putilov Works ...

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