One of the most revolutionary leaders of the United States of America, Abraham Lincoln, had once expressed his discontent towards the arrogant by stating, "I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday." Since the dawn of civilization, the rise and fall of empires yielded vast similarities; yet few leaders took heed of their predecessors. The Russian Revolution was a time of unprecedented initial change, the disseverment of the Romanov dynasty and the fall of the age of monarchs. While at face value, the Nicholas II was replaced by a revolutionary man striving for reforms, such beliefs were all but quixotic. In essence, from the fall of Nicholas to the rise of Stalin, the leader solely put on the "robes of the tyrant it has disposed." The first of these despots was the arrogant Kerensky.…
