The economy marks the complexity, innovation and rehabilitation of a nation. A nation's economy precedes the turn toward improvement or inferiority. “Marxism-Leninism, the communist philosophy of Vladimir Lenin, refines the philosophy of Karl Marx in three parts. First, the revolution must be violent to succeed; secondly, the revolution is possible thanks to the importance of the peasant and working classes; and third, the revolution must be controlled by a group of dedicated revolutionaries who will not sell out the revolution before it is completed” (“Marxism-Leninism”). Following the rule of Tsar Nicholas II in Russia, the economy collapsed, prompting Vladimir Lenin's call for socialism, which prompted the Russian people to resort to the views of Marxism-Leninism. The Tsar sparked unrest in Russia due to his absolute and selfish monarchical rule. Tsar Nicholas II declared reforms on land, freedom of speech and assembly, and the creation of a national parliament, or Duma. At the start of World War I, "Russian absolute monarchy and government repression by Tsars Alexander III and Nicholas II added to social instability. Secret societies emerged, working for social change, either democratically or through revolution” (Buenviaje). Just before the end of his feeble reign, Nicholas II abdicated in which he declared: "We call on all the faithful sons of our native land to fulfill their sacred and patriotic duty to obey the Tsar at the painful moment of national ordeal and help them, together with the representatives of the nation, to lead the Russian state on the path to prosperity and glory. May God help Russia” (“Nicholas II: abdication (1917)”). Russian society responded with riots against the Tsar as it pleaded for relief and growth that he...... middle of paper ......ct and society. ABC-CLIO, 2014. Web. March 30, 2014.Moorehead, Alan. The Russian Revolution. New York: Harper, 1958. Print. “Nicolas II: Abdication (1917). » A world at war: understanding conflicts and society. ABC-CLIO, 2014. Web. March 27, 2014. “Nicholas II of Russia (1894-1917). » Center for History Studies. ProQuest LLC. 2010. Internet. March 20, 2014 “The Russian revolutions, 1917”. Center for History Studies. ProQuest LLC. 2010. Internet. March 30, 2014 Ryan, James. "'Revolution is War': The Development of VI Lenin's Thought on Violence, 1899-1907." JSTOR. Cork 1996, September 2011. Web. March 30, 2014. “VI LENIN “A new phase in the history of Russia begins” (Petrograd, April 15, 1917). “The Penguin Book of Twentieth Century Speeches.” London: 1999. Center for History Studies. Internet. March 18, 2014. Wade, Rex A. The Bolshevik Revolution and the Russian Civil War. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2001. Print.