Tsar Nicholas II And The Great Russian Empire Into A...

Tsar Nicholas II and and Joseph Stalin were vicious rulers who both transformed the once great Russian Empire into a series of fragmented states. Nikolay Aleksandrovich was born May 18, 1868 to Aleksandr Aleksandrovich (Tsar Alexander III from 1881-1894). He was born to a noble family, his father being Tsar of Russia and his cousin being King George V of England. On March 1 1881, his grandfather was assassinated, making Nicholas the Tsesarevich, or son of the Tsar. Many said that Nicholas’s father never prepared him well enough for his role as Tsar. In 1894 Alexander III fell ill with nephritis and passed away on November 1st. Although young and inexperienced, Nicholas took the throne and the title of Tsar Nicholas II. At the time of his†¦show more content†¦On July 17, 1918, while imprisoned in Yekaterinburg by the Bolshevik revolutionaries, the Tsar and his family were told that counterrevolutionaries were approaching the town and that the house may be fired on so they would have to move for their protection. They were then taken down to the basement and shot and killed by their captors. His wife and all his children included. The Tsardom was dissolved and a provincial government was established, lead by Georgy Lvov. This government was quickly overthrown by Vladimir Lenin and the Bolshevik party. Joseph Stalin, born December 1878, was one of the seven members of the first Politburo, which was created in 1917 to manage the Bolshevik revolution. They overthrew the new Russian provisional government and he was appointed the General Secretary of the Bolshevik Party’s central committee in 1922. After many years of suffering, Vladimir Lenin passed away on January 21st, 1924. After Lenin’s death, there was a massive power struggle, which resulted in the majority of the Politburo either exiled or executed by Stalin. At the end of his rule, nearly 55 percent of the population considered it an end of terror. However, support for Stalin has actually increased since the end of the