Editing Abolition of monarchy (section)

==== Russian Empire ====

World War I led to perhaps the greatest number of abolition of monarchies in history. The conditions inside the Russian Empire and the poor performance in the war gave rise to a [[February Revolution|revolution]] which toppled the entire institution of the monarchy, followed by a [[October Revolution|second revolution]] against that government in October of the same year that executed Tsar ([[Imperator#Post-Roman use|Imperator]] (Императоръ)) [[Nicholas II of Russia|Nicholas II]] and implemented a [[Marxist-Leninism|Marxist-Leninist]] government. The [[Russian Civil War]] saw various monarchist, Republican, anarchist, nationalist and socialist factions fight each other with [[Pro-independence movements in the Russian Civil War|bourgeois independence movements]] winning in the [[Baltic States]], Poland and Finland and the [[Bolsheviks]] winning everywhere else.