[SkyDancer]

Well in reading histor of the October Revolution 1918 it was the rich elite students at university (only they had the means to attend) not workers who brought down the Tsar and ushered in Communism.

[Verginius Rufus]

The October Revolution did not bring down the tsar--he was already out in March 1917. The Bolshevik takeover was almost 8 months later.

The intelligentsia clearly played a key role. I recently bought Richard Pipes' Concise History of the Russian Revolution but haven't gotten to the main part yet--it seems to be a very good book.