[KarlInOhio]

I don’t think people used “RusComs” when Soviet Russia was the problem.

That's because the Czar didn't flee to Novaya Zemlya off the coast of Russia to maintain a government in exile like Chiang Kai-shek did with Taiwan.

[Olog-hai]

Well, in between the Tsar and Lenin, there was that “bourgeois democratic” Russia that existed from February to October of 1917, which was made unstable by Lenin’s depredations with Germany’s aid. Nicholas II had abdicated peacefully and the royal family was not in any danger until Lenin gained power.