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Czar Nicholas II was forced to abdicate. Nicholas and his family were held in the Yekaterinburg palace near Tobolsk.After a secret meeting, a death sentence was passed on the imperial family, and Nicholas, his wife, his children, and several of their servants were gunned down on the night of July 16. -
Bolshevik revolutionaries toppled the monarchy, ending the Romanov dynasty. Bolshevik kept Czar and his family hostage for months until he ordered for their execution -
The civil war between the reds and whites was important because it left people staving and their houses were burnt down.