The communist regime of USSR led by Gorbachev was no longer willing to intervene in the eastern countries, in a time that the countries were facing increasing pressure for freedom and liberties. The success of some early uprising in countries like Hungary endeared other countries to follow suit.
It got much bigger and the air quality got better.
Rockets ➡ allows for space explorarion
biotechnology ➡ develops vaccinations and genetic treatments
internet ➡ allows for connections around the globe
computers ➡ enables fast calculations
Bolsheviks formed part of the Red Army. They started a provisional government that led to the formation of communism and the Soviet Union in Russia. This group represents the end for the Russian Empire, and henceforth they controled the Russian Revolution.
Their role during the Russian Revolution was related to the Romanov Royal Family. Tsar Nicholas II possessed the title of Russian Emperor at that time, he was assassinated with his entire family by the Bolsheviks in 1917. This monarch had rather incompetent counselors, they aimed the tsar to kill people unfairly and stop attending their major problems- such as hungry. Bolsheviks presented themselves as the people's deffensors, and ended with the prestige and richness of not only royal family but nobles. Their provisional government was not rather stable, it took quite a while to stablish a Soviet Union.