“...the Romanov Dynasty was a dictatorship vested with absolute power just like the Bolsheviks...”
That is not true. The last czar never had the power of Stalin. And by the time of the October Revolution it was a Duma and Kerensky that were being overthrown. The Czar and Kerensky were both teddy bears compared to Lenin and Stalin.
Nicholas II didn’t have the power of his predecessors or his followers not because he didn’t want it, but because he couldn’t get it. The Duma and Kerensky were running the show because Nicholas II was powerless to stop them (it was only a few years before that the Czar told the Duma to get lost).
Understand this and understand it well, communism is nothing more than feudalism modified for the industrial world. The political philosophy behind a feudal aristocracy- that the masses work for a government run by select elitists- is the same for a communist regime. When William the Conqueror took over England, he replaced all the Saxon land owners with people loyal to him. When Stalin took over Russia, he replaced all the farm and factory owners with people loyal to him.
Didn’t the Czar abdicate (or was in the process of abdicating)? I do remember that the Kerensky government was the one that was actually deposed by the Bolsheviks — that much I remember. My memory of the events is a little hazy. High School history was a long time ago.