Important People
- Karl Marx: he was the founder of communism
- Tzar Nicholas II: last tzar of Russia
- Vladimir Lenin: head and creator of the Bolshevik party
- Leon Trotsky: head of the White army (part of the Bolsheviks); later exiled and killed
- Joseph Stalin: not very prominent in the Russian Revolution, but succeeded Vladimir Lenin for dictator
- Grigory Rasputin: got on the good side of Tzar Nicholas' wife, and "persuaded" her to do things that he wanted for the government