Following the abdication of tsar Nicholas II, Russia was faced with a problem it hadn’t dealt with in three centuries – who should rule next? Initially, along with the tsar’s abdication, he installed a Provisional Government in place to rule in his stead, however, that was only ever going to be a temporary solution. Post-tsarist Russia had two main leaders up until 1953.
Lenin after the October revolution of 1917 and Stalin after the death of Lenin in 1924.
