Karl Liebknecht once said, “The Russian revolution was to an unprecedented degree the cause of the proletariat of the whole world becoming more revolutionary.” The revolution was a result of tension and disaffection for the Russian people. The Russian revolution was accountable with how Russia withdrew WW1 because of the destruction it brought forth to the Russian economy. The Russian revolution was caused by hard labor, unprepared leaders, and how Russia was industrially behind.
Russia had a huge population of civilians that contributed to hard labor that ultimately escalated to a revolution. In document 7, it shows Russian female peasants at work in the late 1800s. Russian women in this time struggled to work due to machines not being available so they were forced to do things by hand. Peasants were treated like slaves and many of them
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In document 3, it states, “Unarmed Russian men had to be sent into the trenches to wait till their comrades were killed or wounded and their rifles became available.” While soldiers were being sent to war they depended on a comrade's death in order to grab a weapon and fight themselves. Soldiers going into war not provided with weapons shows how Russia was industrially behind and careless. In document 10, it states, “Last spring we had not ploughs enough to do the needed ploughing, and that is we do not have crops. There is not enough rye in the district to take us through the winter, let alone to feed the towns.” The farmers are not having enough supplies by cause of the government's involvement in the war. The townspeople are suffering greatly due to the lack of food resulting in many deaths and that is what made them contribute to the revolution. Many people in Russia such as soldiers and townspeople are anguished with how there is simply not enough supplies to support themselves resulting in hardship and
The increasing economic and social tension, as well as the war going on, in Russia just added more distractions in the minds of the Russian government. Stone shows us that Russia was not economically stable enough to handle a war, as they were dealing with the struggle between the old Russian society and the new. This
Anyone who refused to cooperate were either shot or exiled as punishment. Millions of farmers were killed (“Joseph Stalin.”) and this farming method wasn’t able to produce enough food leading to famine which results in millions of other deaths across the Soviet Union (“Joseph Stalin –
By ravaging the countryside, the famine not only destroyed millions of innocent human beings-estimates range from 4 to 10 million-but also retarded by generations the natural evolution of Ukrainian nationhood. The traditional Ukrainian values of hope, individualism, and hard work disappeared. Fear, apathy, and alcoholism became the hallmarks of the collective farm. Cities of Ukraine remained bastions of Russification. In general, the traumatized survivors found themselves voiceless cogs in the huge bureaucratic machine that the Soviet union had become….”(Document
During the Russian Revolution, Lenin was the first Marxist leader of Russia from 1917-1924. For him, democracy was a form of the State, and in turn, a form of oppression. He believed that democracy was a way to make the people of Russia compliant. He saw Parliament as mask for the government, and that officials would make it seem like they were doing good for the public but end up going behind closed doors to make official changes in their favor. This is something he wanted to change.
I enjoyed perusing Sheila Fitzpatrick’s book The Russian Revolution. I think critics are not giving her enough credit for exploring the social, cultural, and even the psychological history of revolutionary Russia. The setting she describes of the feudal setting is consistent with that described by Richard Pipes. This is a difficult history to elucidate as the psychology and culture of feudal systems is poorly documented. Historians have attempted to elucidate the feudal history of the Huguenot Empire leading up through the eventual success of the revolution in Switzerland.
If the villagers are hiding their grain, the only plausible reason for that is the lack of food. Yet, the kolkhoz failed to realize the peasants undergoing starvation as they only care about meeting their grain quotas. The people of Russia were treated inhumanely as they were left to starve and face cruel conditions. Bubyr says, “Time to shut up, you rotten meat! Right now!
This highlights the still present class system in Russia. Even though serfs had been freed they were still being treated as the lowest class, but in turn they were still free to vote and do everything any other free Russian citizen could do, in theory. Things were still unequal and life was hard for the serfs. Serfs who had recently been freed had no means for income and struggled to provide for their families. This arrangement worked in favor for the Russian government because the freed unemployed serfs would join the army and help Russia fight.
Under the shadow of the great industrial powers of the west, the Soviet Union was forced to rush the process of industrialization in order to catch up with it’s advanced neighboring states. Japan was in a similar position during the 20th century, though Japan’s reaction to the pressure was much more successful than Soviet industrialization. Japan’s industrialization was more prosperous and smooth than Russia’s because of the differences in treatment of factory workers, and adaptations to the developed foreign trade market, which ultimately diminished the efficiency of Russian industrialization. Russia was well aware that the state was in need of great change, even more specifically, the russian finance minister, Sergey Witte, had been writing
Old Major, the pig, rasped out in his speech that, “The life of an animal is misery and slavery: that is the plain truth.” Old Major had gathered all the animals together in the barn and expressed his desire for the slavery and cruelty to end. The old pig proposed a rebellion in which all the animals rebel against Mr. Jones. Granted, Old Major stated that the rebellion may not take place in any of the animals’ life times. However, after the death of the old pig, the rebellion happened arbitrarily and without warning.
America was industrializing in the late eighteenth century, which was a movement of industry and factories, and an influx of workers going to the factories to earn money for their everyday lives, which led to many people getting new jobs and fewer people having zero money at all. To the east of America were two other big countries who were trying to industrialize as well. Japan and Russia specifically were industrializing between 1850 and 1914, which affected the industry of both countries. This included factories being converted to automated machinery, however, as a result of the industrialization, Russia was treating its workers much worse than how Japan treated theirs. An example of this is how Russia paid its workers a lot less
When the Ukraine was part of the USSR, it had the most productive farms that produced many vegetables and fruits. Then, this was all taken, from collective farming, and Ukrainians starved, “That summer, the vegetables couldn’t even ripen - people pulled them out of the ground - still green - and ate them.” (Document 3). Ukraine was full of starving and dying people. A mass famine was generating.
This lead to food shortages and inflation in Russia. (doc.1). What the tsar thought was going to happen did not and it lead to even more hatred towards the tsar.
The region known as one of the world’s superpowers lost dominance after seventy years of corruption and destruction. The Soviet Union was the largest Communist bloc, which were countries under Soviet influence. It ended in 1991 because the economy that was government run could no longer sustain. What important things about the Soviet Union should be placed in textbooks? Textbooks should emphasize the USSR’s size, The Great Terror, and their military strength, because they have shaped who this region is today.
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).
By doing this, they overthrown the poorly run government as the Russian people were in favour of a new system that would work in their favour. The Russian Revolution was triggered by the social, political and economic problems, that combined caused the Russian people to rebel. This Revolution was triggered by the poverty of the Russian people, the loss from the wars, the sneakiness of Rasputin and the failure of the Tsar, Nicholas II. The social causes of the Russian Revolution arose from centuries of oppression towards the lower classes.