Answer:
Francis Drake
Explanation:
Sir Francis Drake was ordered by Queen Elizabeth to decimate the supply of Peruvian gold to Spain.
If you are talking about the 1917 one, then what happened is that monarchy rule ended since the soviets, that is the Bolsheviks, took over the government and executed the royalty, declaring the party of the people as the only one who is allowed to rule the country since it represented the will of the people. The soviet union was established this way.
It was Karl Marx who wrote about the struggle between the classes and the overthrow of capitalism in this book. This thinking would later be taken up by the Soviets in Russia.