The fall of autocratic system is significant in the change of ideology of the Russian government, as it had marked the end of Tsarism, but the October Revolution in 1917 is a more important turning point of the development of the government, as based on Communism, the Russian government had changes in its structure and practices later on. Before the fall of monarchy in 1917, a
By December 1917 central Russia and Siberia were under the control of Lenin’s government. The Brest-Litovsk peace agreement between Germany and Communist Russia galvanized significant portions of Russia's population to violently oppose the Bolshevik government. The White armies evolved out of this opposition and became the principal threat to the Bolshevik regime.
This revolution resulted from the horrific defeats in World War I for the Russians and internal pressures. As a result of this revolution, Tsar Nicholas II stepped down from his throne. Vladimir Lenin gained control and established the USSR in 1922. He was the head of the first Soviet Government. He died in 1924 and the General Secretary for the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) took control.
Document six is taken from Russia, a book written by Donald Mackenzie Wallace accounting a day in the life of a nobelman. There is a clear comparision between peasent’s miserable living conditions to the idle comforts enjoyes by the small percentage of nobility. The description of peasents’s living conditions holds levels of consistancy from other source previously studied; such as accounts made by Father George Gapon and Joan
This protest could be seen as the beginning of the end for Tsar Nicholas II as he called his army to open fire on all the protesters, killing several hundred protestors. Because of the high death count this event is known as ‘Bloody Sunday’. This caused more people to lose respect for the monarchy and began to lose loyalty from his army, an example of this would be in June 1905, the crew of the battleship Potemkin rebelled in the Russon-Japanese War. Because of this Nicholas was faced with two choices, a continuence of the current condictions or consitiutional reform. The reforms that Nicholas signed in October 1905 promised the people of Russia, civil liberties, freedon of speech, freedom of assembly and that no laws are to be introduced without the agreement of the Duma.
Admittedly, Lenin had begun to use the Cheka and had set up show trials before Stalin came to power, but some historians such as Stephen Cohen, see this as a response to the awful civil war in Russia, in which, Lenin needed to extend his control over the whole of the Russian people. It is seen by some historians as more of a necessary act of control to keep the country together, and the Bolsheviks in power, rather than a vicious attack on the potential threat of the Russian people. In “The History of Terrorism” the historians argue that “For Lenin, terror was not the principal instrument” that he wanted to use to gain control. This reveals that perhaps he only used it in times of need, rather than simply because he was able
The reign of Peter I's daughter Elizabeth in 1741–62 saw Russia's participation in the Seven Years' War (1756–63). During this conflict Russia annexed East Prussia for a while and even took Berlin. However, upon Elisabeth's death, all these conquests were returned to Kingdom of Prussia by pro-Prussian Peter III of Russia. Catherine II (the Great), who ruled in 1762–96, presided over the Age of Russian Enlightenment. She extended Russian political control over the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and incorporated most of its territories into Russia during the Partitions of Poland, pushing
All banks where natolinezed, meaning that the economy was run by the national council. Soon other country's around the world to started have riots and turned into communist because of Russia (where)? The last short term effect of the war is the Russian people went from being lead by a monarch (tsar Nicholas 2nd) to being lead by the Bolsheviks people who lead by terrorising people. Tsar Nicholas the 2nd and his family where soon all killed by the Bolsheviks. A long term effect of the Russian revolution Because of all the riots all the skilled workers fled the country hoping
Under the term of Pyotr Stolypin as Prime Minister (1906-11), hundreds of opponents were hanged - earning the hangman’s noose the nickname - ‘the Stolypin necktie’. Under high Stalinisim in the 1930s and 1940s, thousands were executed and up to 2.5 million ‘zeks’ sent to the Gulags of Siberia. However, many individual rulers did much to change Russian government, despite the apparent similarities. Khrushchev for example, introduced ‘decentralisation’, which involved the creation of the Sovnarkhozy (regional governments). Alexander II also attempted to bring about some degree of devolution with the creation of the Zemstra (regional councils).
Under Khrushchev’s leadership russia experienced both political and agricultural reform in the form of abolishing the special tribunals, forced hospitalisation & planting the virgin lands of Kazakhstan and western Siberia. Khrushchev managed to defend his reputation through “the thaw” (de- Stalinsation process) in which censorship was lightened allowing novels that criticise Stalin to be published however there were still some restrictions. He also set the inmates who were sent to gulags to return home; followed by his speech denouncing his involvement with Stalin. The speech included Lenin’s will and testimony which warned the party against stalin; it also blamed Stalin for not making the ussr ready for German attack, his policies and the terror. Through de- stalinisation khrushchev also managed to send home the many