The ruler of Russia in 1916 was Saint Nicholas II. Saint Nicholas II ruled Russia from 1894 to 1917. He was overthrown in 1917 and promptly executed.
Russia stopped in 1917 because of internal problems. This eventully became a holiday in russia.
Revolution, perhaps.
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Vladimir I. Lenin
Vladimir Lenin served as leader of soviet Russia from 1917 till his death in 1924. From 1922 he also served as Premier of the Soviet Union and was later succeeded by the famous communist leader Stalin.
Czar Nicholas Romanov II was still Russia's leader in 1914. He abdicated in March 1917.
Vladimir Lenin was the leader of Russia from 1917 to 1922. He was a communist, and he turned Russia into the Soviet Union. Lenin was predecessor to Stalin.
The leader of the Bolshevik revolution of 1917 was Vladimir Illych Lenin.
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Lenin
Vladimir Lenin, creator of the Soviet Communist Party, leader of the 1917 October Revolution, and founder of the USSR. As head of the Bolsheviks (1917-1924) he led the Red Army to victory in the Russian Civil War, before establishing the world's first officially socialist state Joseph Stalin was the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee from 1922 until his death in 1953. In the years following Lenin's death in 1924, he rose to become the authoritarian leader of the Soviet Union.
1917-1924. very short rule
If one goes by the Julian calendar then in use in Russia, Vladimir Lenin and his Bolsheviks were leading Russia in March 1917. If one goes by the Gregorian calendar then in use by the western world, the Provisional Government under Alexander Kerensky was leading Russia in the beginning of March 1917 then Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks did.
No, Nicholas II was Tsar of the empire of Russia. He was overthrown in 1917. The Soviet Union was formed in 1923-1924.
He controlled Russia for seven years. (1917-1924)