Causes of Russian Revolution
Introduction:
Since revolutions are complex social and political upheavals, historians who write about them are bound to differ on the most basic questions--causes, revolutionary aims, impact on the society, political outcome, and even the time span of the revolution itself. In the case of the Russian Revolution, the starting-point presents no problem: almost everyone takes it to be the "February Revolution" of 1917, which led to the abdication of Nicholas II and the formation of the Provisional Government. But when did the Russian Revolution end? Was it all over by October 1917, when the Bolsheviks took power? Or did the end of the Revolution come with the Bolsheviks ' victory in the Civil War in 1920? Was Stalin 's "revolution from above" part of the Russian Revolution? Or should we take the view that the Revolution continued throughout the lifetime of the Soviet state?
Russian Revolution, one of the major events that shaped world 's future, overnight destroyed the existing society and replaced it with world 's most radical social experiment ever seen. Although Russian Revolution is usually acknowledged as one revolution, it in fact consists of two different revolutions. The second one is called the Bolshevik Revolution.
Causes of Russian Revolution:
• Dissatisfaction with Existing Conditions:
The conditions in Russia were not optimistic. Not only was food scarce, the people were forced to pay heavy taxes and the gap between the peasants and the nobles was widening every day. Some people were also dissatisfied with the Tsar 's autocratic rule and wanted him out to be replaced with a more democratic rule. Some felt that other powers were progressing faster than they were and that the Tsar should adopt some of their thinking. Moreover, of course, there were the communists, like the two groups, the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks. • Russia 's defeat in the Russo-Japanese War:
Russia took on Japan in 1904, when Japan competed with
Since revolutions are complex social and political upheavals, historians who write about them are bound to differ on the most basic questions--causes, revolutionary aims, impact on the society, political outcome, and even the time span of the revolution itself. In the case of the Russian Revolution, the starting-point presents no problem: almost everyone takes it to be the "February Revolution" of 1917, which led to the abdication of Nicholas II and the formation of the Provisional Government. But when did the Russian Revolution end? Was it all over by October 1917, when the Bolsheviks took power? Or did the end of the Revolution come with the Bolsheviks ' victory in the Civil War in 1920? Was Stalin 's "revolution from above" part of the Russian Revolution? Or should we take the view that the Revolution continued throughout the lifetime of the Soviet state?
Russian Revolution, one of the major events that shaped world 's future, overnight destroyed the existing society and replaced it with world 's most radical social experiment ever seen. Although Russian Revolution is usually acknowledged as one revolution, it in fact consists of two different revolutions. The second one is called the Bolshevik Revolution.
Causes of Russian Revolution:
• Dissatisfaction with Existing Conditions:
The conditions in Russia were not optimistic. Not only was food scarce, the people were forced to pay heavy taxes and the gap between the peasants and the nobles was widening every day. Some people were also dissatisfied with the Tsar 's autocratic rule and wanted him out to be replaced with a more democratic rule. Some felt that other powers were progressing faster than they were and that the Tsar should adopt some of their thinking. Moreover, of course, there were the communists, like the two groups, the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks. • Russia 's defeat in the Russo-Japanese War:
Russia took on Japan in 1904, when Japan competed with
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