Democracy, voting, these sorts of things get in the way of the dictatorship of the proletarian, which is on this march for socialism and communism. What else? The czar is dead. The provisional government kept him alive, but during the Civil War, the Red Army didn't want any sort of legacy hanging out. So not only did they shoot the czar, but they shot his wife. They shot all of his children. That's just kind of a sad story right there.