Russian Revolution

Russian Revolution in Southern Victory
The Russian Revolution was a rebellion against Tsar Nicholas II of Russia which began in 1915, during the Great War. An alliance of various anti-Tsarist forces, led primarily by socialists and supported by the Central Powers, killed the Tsar and forced Russia to withdraw from the Great War. A decade of civil war followed, and the Tsar's brother, Mikhail II, became Tsar after defeating the last socialist holdout in Tsaritsin. The revolution was defeated.

Russian Revolution in World War
The Russian Revolution was a German backed uprising in Russia during World War I in 1917. The Tsar was assassinated, his line was wiped out. A civil war followed between Red (Communist) and White forces, and in the end, despite extensive support for the Whites from a number of Western nations, the Communists defeated all their rivals, consolidated power, and formed the Soviet Union in 1922.

In 1942, when Soviet Foreign Commisar Vyacheslav Molotov met with Atvar, fleetlord of the Race's Conquest Fleet, aboard the 127th Emperor Hetto, he horrified the Race by explaining the Russian Revolution to Atvar. Atvar had assumed the Soviet Union was an empire, the only form of government known to the Race or any other species it had encountered to that point, and he was shocked and appalled to learn of Tosevite not-empires.