Throughout this time period the ruling elite, who made up 1.1% of the population despite owning 25% of the land, maintained constant support of the Tsar. This support was based on reliance in the Tsars rule in order to ensure their own aristocracy. The nobles controlled the land Therefore through the nobility’s control of land and as a result the means of production, the Tsar had autocratic power over the majority who worked this land; the peasants, both of state (32.7%) and through the nobility 50.7% as despite the emancipation of serfs in 1861 the lives of these peasants were heavily restricted and reliant on the land owners through the Mir, censorship, tax and redemption payments, of which many could not pay for and so were forced into debt. the peasants themselves, being both restricted in the Mir and due to their traditional attitudes and acceptance of social situation, what Marx would call a lack of revolutionary consciousness, can be attributed to the Tsarist survival.…
The Russian Revolution of February 1917 was not directly attributed to the Tsar’s failure to solve economic problems. There were a wide range of causes to the downfall which can’t be directly associated to the failure to solve economic problems.…
France and Russia experienced similar and different economic matters that helped lead to the revolution. First of all, money was a problem in both countries because of debt. Since France helped fund the American Revolution in 1775, they were in large debt. The significance of the French helping America in their revolution came into play later on because according to the Patterns textbook on page 651, “Members of the Third Estate were inspired by the success of the American Revolution”, which showed that France’s funding for America was also a cause for the revolution. Russia was also in debt but for a different reason, with Russia, money was spent on war since they were involved in the Russo-Japanese War (1904) as well as WWI (1914) later on. Both countries’ debt…
Describe and analyze the long-term social and economic trends in the period 1860 to 1917 that prepared the ground for revolution in Russia.…
It can be argued that Tsar Nicholas II's autocratic rulership was a main cause of the Russian Revoultion . The working and lower classes did not have any say in how the country…
Between 1800 and 1939 Russia underwent through a severe regime change. The people of Russia were in a state of great economic disparity, and the lower class faced hunger, poverty, etc. The lower class had very little of the grain, land, and fiscal control that was available in Russia, such pretext of large income disparity gaps and unbalanced control of GDP were the pre-requisites se in place for the takeover of socialism. And such is what happened. Within this time period Russia went through a proletariat revolution of communism aiming have the workers of the world unite and free themselves from capitalist oppression to create a world run by and for the working class. However even though they underwent this major social-economic change, conditions in Russia stayed around the same. We still saw that Russia was under leadership of a Totalitarian authority. And maintained the same economic conditions where the consumer-based market never developed and the population was largely rural and the economy was agricultural based.…
The late 18th and early 19th centuries were influenced heavily by a series of revolutions that reshaped the entirety of Western civilization, primarily in the areas of politics, social standings, and economics. Starting with the American Revolution in 1776 and ending with the Russian Revolution of 1917, the word has seen a variety of changes and upheavals. Primarily sparked by political oppression, economic inequality, and social unrest, these revolutions led to a new beginning for many countries. Understanding the reasons behind these revolutions, their respective legacies, and responses by world leaders provides critical insight into these times of renewal. Beginning in the late 1760’s, political opposition became strongly influenced by public…
The American Revolution, French Revolution, and Russian Revolution are known as the three great revolutions in world civilization. There are many things that relate these three revolutions, as well as many things that make them very different than one another.…
The French Revolution and the Russian Revolution were the same in many ways, but were also different in just as many ways. A king who believed in absolutism, just as France was before the revolution, led Russia; the kings didn't accurately represent their people, nor were they close to them; the middle class (bourgeoisie, in France, Duma, in Russia) wanted recognition; and in both cases, the royal families were executed. There were even more comparisons to the two Revolutions.…
Many of the younger generations of nobility to the belief that free labor is much more productive than the serfdom that has been practiced for hundreds of years in Russia and pointed to the modernization and cultural improvements in western countries like England, France, and Germany as prime examples. They believed that the first steps to take begin to make Russia a modern and powerful nation of the world was to start with the emancipation of the serfs from their land owners and ceding some of the land away from the former owners in hopes that the communes that would form would allow for some to be easily dismantled for industrial uses and the nobles would begin to setup more modern agriculture businesses. The opposition on the other hand thought differently to the more optimistic view of the younger generation, viewing the serfs as a lazy and ignorant compared to the former serf classes of France and Germany. While having a more free labor market would increase profits, they feared the former serfs would be too ignorant and unmotivated to work beyond basic needs, which would put Russia further back on the path to modernization. When the time came for the Emancipations to be put in place, many of the of the older generations predictions came true.…
The Russian Revolution was one of the most important revolutions in history. Just like the French people, Russians got tired of being treated unfairly by the Higher classes, and so decided to revolt against them. However unlike the French, they could not be satisfied, or entertained for long by a single revolution, reason why they did many revolts. Each time retreating at its middle, until they finally were annoyed and determined enough to overthrow the Government and change their lives as they knew it. Even so, that wasn’t the only cause of the Russian Revolution, along the many revolts came various relevant causes and events, but only few of them stood out, with such importance to today’s history of the causes for the Russian…
The American Revolution was one of the bloodiest wars fought on American soil. The war cost the lives of thousands on noble patriots. There were a variety of reasons the war came about. Some of these reasons were less patriotic than others. Three large causes to the American Revolution were Boston Massacre, Proclamation of 1763, and Boston tea party.…
First of all, before the Russian Revolution, more than 80 percent of people in Russia were serfs. These people including men, women, and children worked for the owners of the large estates. Serfs were practically prominently owned by the noble for whom they worked. The noble was responsible for feeding, clothing, and housing the serfs. After Alexander ÉÉ "freed" the serfs, the Communist came into action by telling the serfs what to do, where to live, and where to work. Now, serfs were responsible for feeding clothing, and housing themselves. After the revolution, the communist party took away their freedom and put them in communal farms. In return, serfs now…
The major changes during the struggle for independence and years after gave a “period of revolutionary significance” (Jones, 1995, p. 58). However, the American Revolution was not the same as the French Revolution of 1789 or the Russian Revolution of 1917 as it had no major changes in economic or reorganisation of the government. The Americans fought not to seek to establish a radical new social order but it was the first successful war of national independence in the modern period in which it ended the British rule thus resulting to an inspiration towards other colonial people. The war also produced a new nation with ideas that rejected those of the Old World in which it became a catalyst on the future of Americans generations. All of the…
I believe there was two main fears those colonists who, choose to stay out the revolution had. One being, as you pointed being the fear of chaos. The chaos that would take place, as more protests took place and the tensions between the sides started to rise. The other would the fear of the potential punishment the British would levy onto the Colonists if a war in sued and they lost. This would ultimately go back to the fear of death, as the punishment could have been that sever.…