How Did World War 1 Changed The World

World War I changed the world in a way that nothing had before. Everybody was appalled by the horrors of a conflict on such a large scale. The aftermath of World War I left the world changed forever. One such country began a major change before the war even ended, and resulted in a major revolution. The Soviet Union was affected in a way not many countries were. The way the entire country was run changed. Vladimir Ilych Ulyanov, aka “Lenin”, saw the rise of the Bolshevik government after World War I. From the October Revolution, there was opposition to the Bolshevik government. Alexander Kerensky’s provisional government was doomed to fail from the beginning; from reasons such as the very heavy military losses Russia was experiencing on the
After this, the Cheka eliminated many political opponents of Lenin and the Bolshevik Government, but this was tame compared to what was to come next. After the assassination of Petrograd Cheka leader Moisei Uritsky on 17th August 1917, and the attempted assassination of Lenin on the 30th of the same month, Lenin officially started the “Red Terror,” which was to last until 1922. Lenin’s Red Terror, although horrible, was necessary for the Bolsheviks to remain in complete control of the Russian people, and prevent a counter-revolution of an anti-communist force. Without the Cheka and the Red Terror, the Bolshevik revolution would invariably have been short-lived. There was a high likelihood that there would have been a strong counter-revolution by anti-Bolshevik forces, as the period after the October Revolution was extremely unstable. The Red Terror was needed to spread as much terror as possible in order to prevent a major counter-revolution by the Mensheviks or other anti-Bolshevik