<P> Eventually almost all of the Bolsheviks who had played prominent roles during the Russian Revolution of 1917 , or in Lenin 's Soviet government , were executed . Out of six members of the original Politburo during the 1917 October Revolution who lived until the Great Purge , Stalin himself was the only one who remained in the Soviet Union , alive . Four of the other five were executed . The fifth , Leon Trotsky , had been forced into exile outside the Soviet Union in 1929 , but was assassinated in Mexico by Soviet agent Ramón Mercader in 1940 . Of the seven members elected to the Politburo between the October Revolution and Lenin 's death in 1924 , four were executed , one ( Tomsky ) committed suicide and two ( Molotov and Kalinin ) lived . </P>
<P> Eventually almost all of the Bolsheviks who had played prominent roles during the Russian Revolution of 1917 , or in Lenin 's Soviet government , were executed . Out of six members of the original Politburo during the 1917 October Revolution who lived until the Great Purge , Stalin himself was the only one who remained in the Soviet Union , alive . Four of the other five were executed . The fifth , Leon Trotsky , had been forced into exile outside the Soviet Union in 1929 , but was assassinated in Mexico by Soviet agent Ramón Mercader in 1940 . Of the seven members elected to the Politburo between the October Revolution and Lenin 's death in 1924 , four were executed , one ( Tomsky ) committed suicide and two ( Molotov and Kalinin ) lived . </P>
in what year did the russian revolution draw to a close
in what year did the russian revolution draw to a close
1917
1917