Before the Russian Revolution Russia had a Monarch named Tsar Nicholas the II, but after the Russian Revolution, Russia turned into a communist state. Tsar Nicholas the II admits defeat and agrees to abdicate. Giving the Bolsheviks the chance to claim the government and morph Russia into a communist state. The monarch granted the creation of …show more content…
the State Duma granting the creation of the Duma limited the Tsar’s power and helped unite the Soviets and spread its influence through Russian politics. Lenin commented on the Russian Revolution “Bread, peace, and land” and “All power to the Soviets”. Lenin’s comments on the Revolution lead to a political outcry throughout Russia. “Bread, peace, and land” spoke out that the Bolsheviks will grant the wishes of the angry Russian people against the Monarch. Then Lenin’s comment “All power to the Soviets” made the people follow the Soviets. The events of Tsar Nicholas the II abdicating, the formation of the State Duma/Provisional government, and Lenin’s Bolsheviks comments helped The people overthrow the Monarch and morphed the provisional government into a communist union by giving all power to the Soviets because they would grant the Russians needs. Thus forming into a communist state. The Russian people suffered from poverty, famine, and outdated technology. Due to an unfavorable capitalist system against the Russian people. That was until the Bolsheviks changed the economic system into a socialist economy. The Soviets/Bolsheviks granted the people resources by nationalizing Russian services and putting into effect a shared economy. Russia saw a stronger economy that favored the Russian people and saw Russia industrializing. Lenin responded to the destabilized Russian economy by implementing NEP (New Economic Plan) which opened a bit of capitalism but only for small private business. Lenin’s New Economic Policy helped stabilize Russia’s economy by allowing a bit of capitalism just to small private businesses to run and help Russia’s economy but it still puts socialism in place for big industries. Russia had become a country with expired technology and was not advancing until the socialist economy came to place nationalizing industries and industrializing Russia. With the Bolsheviks using their socialist economy, Lenin’s New Economic Policy, and Russia’s industrializing Russia’s economy stabilized more and Russia experiencing advancements turning into other industrialized countries. Russia had suffered a class struggle between the rich versus poor, the people versus the army, and specifically all the people versus Tsar Nicholas the II and the nobles.
Then the Russian Revolution gave everyone in Russia that sense that everyone is of one class united. Russia’s military responded against the monarch and the provisional government by committing mutiny and joining the protesters and helping overthrow the government. The people of Russia had a long time disliking their government, but would use the military against the people, but then the military saw themselves in the same class as the Russian people who saw the monarch and provisional government as apathetic. Lenin's comment “Bread, peace, and land” on the Russian Revolution would be the words of protest that the people would use as they demanded resources, withdrawal from World War one, and land for the people. The saying “Bread, peace, and land” would be the words to unite the people of Russia into one class. The people demanded Tsar Nicholas the II to relinquish power as monarch by responding with protests ranging with women protests, protests with the military, and protests from abuse and killings of the people from the government such as Bloody Sunday and the use of secret police. Russians from all classes might have differentiated from what they wanted the government to be like or the revolution's ideology such as the Mensheviks and Bolsheviks. Yet one thing in most of the Russian people’s mind was to overthrow Tsar Nicholas the II which gave a sort of unity of classes towards fighting against the Tsar. The Russian military mutiny, Lenin's saying for unity and most of the Russian people wanting to overthrow Tsar Nicholas the II lead to a form of unity of the Russian people from different classes that had found the Russian government as
apathetic. The Russian Revolution was an overall success by changing Russia's Monarchy into a communist state, changing into a socialist economy from a capitalist economy, and changed the socio-economic classes. Russia saw a drastic change in its history from what came from the Russian Revolution as it saw the end of 300 years of the Romanov Dynasty. A new form of socialist economics came to place for 20th century Russia. Giving a sense of unity for the Russian people as they would see each other as one industrialized working class.