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While other countries had started their industrial revolution in the 1800's, Russia didn't move in the same way until 1917. Before industrial revolution, workers previously lived on estates, farmed land and paid rent to the land owners. They had few opportunities to change their situation and they had no representation in government. Once opportunities began to spring up in cities, workers moved to the city. They were able to begin to amass some wealth and eventually own property. (This wasn't easy and the working conditions were deplorable, but they were able to keep some of the money they made - that didn't really happen on estates). Many European countries had moved to democracy by the turn of the century (or something like it - monarchies as sole governments were becoming a thing of the past). Russia, however, was still living in terms of the Tsar. Workers were still living on estates which they did not own and they had no say in the functioning of government. There was an increasing disenchantment with the rural and oppressive lives they were leading while the bourgeoisie enjoyed the fruits of the worker's labours. The 1917 February Revolution led by the Bolsheviks marked the end of the monarchy - and Tsar Nicholas II and his entire family - and the rise of communism under Vladimir Lenin. Communism allowed the workers to start to take control of their lives.
