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After the destruction of the royal family, the Bolsheviks waste no time in seizing the power.
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The Russian Revolution is what began the rise to communism. This revolution overthrew the Tsar and the royal family forming a rift between the people and the government.
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In the year of 1918, a man named Vlamir Lenin, created a new government after the Tsar stepped down. Lenin then signed a treaty with Germany, ending the war.
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In 1922, Russia officially became the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the USSR.
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After the death of Vladmir LeninIn, Russia gets a new dictator, Joseph Stalin.
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In the year 1939, the USSR and Germany signed the Non-aggression pact. This pact was an aggreement that neither Germany or the USSR would attack one another.
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The Cold War played a huge part in the downfall of the Soviet Union and communism.
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After Russia became the USSR, it wasn't long after that they officially became a communist nation.
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Not soon after the Cold War, Russia fell into a long and tiring period of economic stagnation, that ultimately lead to the fall of the Soviet Union.
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The fall of communism began on November 9th in 1989 at the Berlin wall. The people were so excited to be done with the rule of a cruel dictator, that they cheered together and began to tear down the wall, sybolizing the end of the communist rule.