On November 7, 1917 (October 25 in the Julian calendar), the Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Lenin, overthrew the Russian Provisional Government in Petrograd. The October Revolution, following the February Revolution that had toppled Tsar Nicholas II, established the world's first socialist state. The resulting Soviet Union would become a global superpower and the center of the communist world, profoundly shaping 20th-century geopolitics.
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