But they didn't wanna lose their free labour, so as an exchange, you'll pay a huge debt in the next 46 years, expect your life to BARELY change!
I'm here to tell you that you are now free from your landlords!
Boo~
Yay~
However, Alexander the II died of an assassination attempt, and Alexander the III died of kidney inflammation, leaving the young and unready Nicholas alone to rule the country.
Twentieth Century Russia
Rasputin, a self-claimed holy man was invited to the Royal Palace by Nicholas for his magical healing skills because Nic's son was suffering from haemophilia. About as magical as it sounds, Nicholas's son, was healed, bringing Rasputin extremely close to the Royal Family.
RUSSIA
Alexander the II, also known as the Great Reformer, "freed" Russian serfs from their landlords.
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Trying to revive the patriotic part of his fellow Russians after the failed attempt in the Russo-Japanese War, Tsar Nicholas took over the control of the Army at the frontline, leaving the homeless psychic wizard and his German wife in control of Russia. Simultaneously, the Germans sent Vladimir Lenin back to Russia, a Russia whose economy is broken, class tension rose, and was in a huge mess.
After getting rid of Rasputin mysteriously, Nicholas was forced to abdicate. When Lenin came back and saw the Provisional Government, widespread inflation and food shortages, he and the Bolsheviks decided to uprise, with the slogan of "Peace, Land, Bread." They quickly took over the Russian capital Petrograd in just a day (Peacefully) and got rid of the Provisional Government.
The Provisional Government is a bunch of bourgeois bozos!
Despite working so hard for his Communist ideas, Lenin never got to see his utopia coming true. Rather, Stalin led the Russians down a different path, making it a secret police state, a rapily militarising superpower led by a ultra-paranoid men who deeply distrusted the West will make Communism a very influential ideal around the world.