ABSTRACT
The World War proved the graveyard of the Romanoff dynasty which for nearly three hundred years had guided destinies of Russia, at times not without success, out of the chaos of the “Time of Troubles” down to twentieth century. In later years the despotic regime of sovereign entrenched behind a bureaucracy which former Tsar’s had created to support their rule, proved too rigid and unresponsive to new methods to enable it to win a modern war. For by the summer of 1917 the pent-up feelings of masses were rising from in a mighty eruption. Two great forces were set in motion by the dynamics of Russian society and history. The Bolshevik Revolution of October 1917 was, in one of its aspects, the consummation of the century-old struggle of the Russian peasant for economic liberty which had once been his in early Russia, but of which he had been robbed by Tartar invasions and the encroachments of a feudal landlordism.
