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The Russian Revolution of 1917 marked the end of the Romanov dynasty and centuries of Russian Imperial rule. During the Russian Revolution, the Bolsheviks, led by leftist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin seized power and destroyed the tradition of czarist rule. Civil War broke out in Russia between the Red and White Armies. The Red Army fought for the Lenin’s Bolshevik government. The White Army represented a large group of monarchists, capitalists and supporters of democratic socialism.

Russian Revolution In 1922, as a result of the Russian Revolution, a new political party emerged: the USSR or the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union was the world’s first communist state. Communism was a new political and economic model that was supposed to get rid of class distinction. From the beginning, communism opposed capitalism and capitalist countries like the United States. The Russian Revolution united the socialists against the capitalists, with the USSR, a communist country, siding with the socialists.

The BOLSHEVIKS regime was in a unstable state because Russia was in a shape of civil war, which was started by the white Russians this predicament was made even worse because European countries were invading Russia.

This fuels discontent. Two factions of socialists seem to be the most popular parties among the Russian people, the Socialist Revolutionary Party and the Bolsheviks, but neither have much power in the Provisional government. There are constant strikes by starving workers and further mutinies by soldiers and sailors in the Russian military. 1917- October Revolution (actually occurred in November).

The Russian revolution resulted in the overthrow of the country’s monarchy and the establishment of the Soviet Union. It started off with many protests and strikes that forced Tsar Nicholas II out of power. As a result, a provisional government was put in place but it was weak and ineffective so the Bolsheviks took control and established a socialist government. The Bolshevik Revolution was caused by a combination of unstable and corrupt monarchies, unfair treatment of the populace, and a lagging industry, which eventually led to the creation of the USSR.

Since there was such a large peasant population it was easy for them to rebel and win. Many troops were just simply peasants in uniform and when the tsar order the soldiers to shoot the people rebelling they didn’t and the tsar had no power.(doc.2).These peasant were known as proletariats, the growing class of factory and railroad workers, miners, and urban wage earners.(doc.4).Lenin, the leader of the Bolshevik party spread the works of Karl Marx to many factory workers with other socialist.(doc.4).Lenin was profoundly affected by his older brother Alexander’s 1887 execution for being involved in a plot to assassinate the tsar.(doc.5).The peasants tried to make a petition to overthrow the tsar’s reign but he refused to meet with them.(doc.1)This gave the peasants almost no choice but to revolt. Finally, in March the tsar is overthrown and within about a day there were no signs of the tsar because the peasants had burned or taken down everything that even made you think of him. Little did the Russians know that it was more difficult to construct a government than to destroy

As the war was fought, support for the war effort in Russia decreased. However, the government wanted to continue the fight. This caused a revolutionary leader, Vladimir Lenin, to step up and be the people’s voice. He rose to power with the slogan “Peace, Land, Bread,” which appealed to all of the people on the Russian home front. Lenin and his policies appealed to the people because he presented “the offer of peace, the salvation of Petrograd, salvation from famine, the transfer of the land to the peasants,” (Document 8).

Andre Abi Haidar PSPA 210 INTRODUCTION It is always difficult to write about and discuss Karl Marx, or more importantly the applications of Marx’s theories, due to the fact that he inspired and gave rise to many movements and revolutionaries, not all of which follow his theories to the point. Although Marx tends to be equated with Communism, it might not seem righteous to blame him for whatever shortcomings occurred when his theories were put to the test; Marx passed away well before the revolution in Russia, and he played no role in the emergence of the totalitarian regime at the time. When discussing Marx, however, Vladimir Lenin is one of the biggest highlights when it comes to studying the outcomes of Marx’s theories.

The Bolsheviks would overtake the Russian monarchy and set up provisional government. This was the beginning of the Soviet Union being a socialist country. The Soviets had great plans but after some time there was famine in the country and overall distrust within the structure of the leadership. Millions of people were dying from starvation. The US headed up a relief effort to feed these millions of people.

In the aftermath of the previous February Revolution, there was power sharing between the weak Provisional Government and the Petrograd Soviet. The October Revolution was a much more calculated event, orchestrated by a small group of people: the Bolsheviks. Led by Vladimir Lenin, the Bolsheviks launched a coup d'état against the Provisional Government and seized power, occupying strategic locations such as government buildings and forming a new government with Lenin as its head. The October Revolution was a watershed in Russian history, affecting Russia's economy, society, culture, international politics and industrial development. Russia's new leaders were drawn mainly from the intellectual and working classes rather than from the aristocracy.

The Russian Revolution, which was started by Lenin and his followers, was a rebellion that occurred in 1917 which forced higher powers to act to the needs of the lower class. For instance, many citizens were worried for their protection in consequence to the lack of survival necessities due to an early drought. Furthermore, their current czar during the time was incapable for his position as a czar and made horrendous decisions as czar. For example, when the czar, Nicholas, entered in World War I, he sent untrained troops into countless battles of failure which costed in mass amounts of lost life (paragraph 23).

State-censored History textbooks were my first source; they depict a blur image: social conflicts in the Russian Empire were acute and the World War worsened the situation—both the bourgeoisie and the proletariats wished to overthrow the Tsar. As a result, in March, 1917, after the bourgeois revolution, the Provisional Government was established. Because the Provisional Government continued the World War, the subsequent October Revolution, in which Lenin led the proletariats to fight for social justice and equality, established the first socialist country (Volume 1, Lesson 19, People's Education Press,

Bolshevik Revolution The start of the Bolshevik Revolution was caused by a lack of leadership in Russia. This was because of the lack of respect to the Czar. Another main factor was that they had zero competent military leaders. This led to heavy casualties on the front lines.

Vincent Herschlein – October Revolution – 17th of March, 2015 The statement "The October Revolution (1917) resulted not from the actions of the Bolsheviks, but from the failure of the Provisional Government." is largely agreeable as the mishandling of military decisions, as well as the socio-political failures of the Provisional Government allowed the Bolsheviks to seize power. However, the October Revolution cannot be entirely attributed to the failures of the Provisional Government, as the Bolshevik’s strategic exploitation of the weaknesses of the Provisional Government also played an important role in the October Revolution. One of the key failures of the Provisional Government was the staying in WWI.

The outbreak of the February/March 1917 Russian Revolution was mainly a result of the weak leadership of Tsar Nicholas II. Although other factors include the 1905 Revolution, social economic change, the Romanov rule (between 1906 and 1914), the effects of World War I and the policies of the Tsar and the autocratic government, is is proven that the main causes of the outbreak of the Revolution all stem from the Tsar’s inability to lead the Russian population efficiently. The short-term cause that is seen as one of the direct outbreak to the 1905 uprising is the defeat of Russia in the Russo-Japanese War. Tsar Nicholas II and the Tsarist officials thought that their entrance into this war would distract the Russian public from the bad economic