He describes the government as disorganized. There were many ideological principles that contributed to the Russian Revolution. These ideas were based on the theories of Karl Marx. These ideas were also based on socialism, as mentioned in Document 1. In Document 7, Lenin’s laws also show ideological principles that contributed to the Russian Revolution.
In the late 19th century, Russia began its process of industrialization following its defeat at the hands of Western nations in the Crimean War. Russia's Industrial Revolution was further helped along by its growing population and an increasing labor force. As the industrial process continued, it gave new job opportunities such as: in mining, factory work, and railroad construction. This influx of jobs was taken by an influx of people, where it came from the country to work in the cities as cheap laborers, taking up dangerous and low-paying jobs. In spite of all these changing times and circumstances, the tension between the upper and lower classes remained tenser than ever before, building up under the fabric of society.
After World War One the whites (soviets) went to war with the reds (Bolsheviks and followers) and the civil war started. The reds eventually won the civil war but not because that they had more people than the whites but because the reds army was much more organised than the whites. In the end 10 million people died which was a shocking number since Lenin said there would be peace and no more war. Vladimir Lenin along with the Bolsheviks eventual turned Russia turned into a communist country.meaning that farmland was shared out between the farmers and the factories where given to the workers. All banks where natolinezed, meaning that the economy was run by the national council.
Alexander II, along with most of Russia, acknowledged that the root of the problem lay in Serfdom; a form of modified slavery that was heavily implemented in Russia at the time. Serfs made up over half the population and many of them were forced to serve in the military despite being ill-equipped and under trained so it came as no surprise when Russia was defeated in the Crimean war. A national outcry then ensued for the Emancipation of Serfdom. The effects of the Emancipation cannot be overstated. Once serfdom was abolished in Russia in 1861 its economic growth ran at an average of 4.6 percent between 1862 and 1900, speeding up over the years.
Social freedom was pretty much unheard of for the vast majority of lower-class Russians, around 50 million at the time of the emancipation of the serfs (1861) and all throughout the history of Imperial Russia’s there have been massive class divides this dived could be sustained whilst the peasants were uneducated but by the turn of the century people were starting to question the divine rule of the Tsar and 1905 revolution could been seen as major turning point that was as important as the First World War because on the 22nd of January 1905 The Tsar was responsible for the shooting of peasants in Bloody Sunday, where he ordered the army to open fire on a peaceful protest suggesting his inability to grasp a whole nature of events. Finally the Tsar was described as “out of touch and arrogant to his people” as he refused to believe and purposely ignored warning messages from Rodzianko his cousin explaining the severity of the revolution in 1017, the Tsar chooses to trust his wife, the Tsarina who has underestimated the threat of the protestors and was being greatly influenced by
It caused unemployment rates to rise, reaching as high as 25%. This, in turn, impacted family life, leaving many to live in extremely harsh conditions. It also affected social life, due to the fact that the gap between the rich and working-class widened. It truly was a catastrophe which impacted all. After the crash of the stock markets, the demand for agricultural goods during WWI disappeared, and as a result, rural areas of America experienced severe adversity.
There can be no ignoring the effect that World War I had on Russia, with the crippling affects of a major war and the resulting breakdown of infrastructure within the Russian Empire. From 1903 when the Bolsheviks were formed a rising threat had emerged to Tsardom, The Marxist intellectual Vladimir Lenin was emerging as an influential light in the revolutionary movement. His earlier pamphlet entitled ‘What is to be done?’ outlined his need for more organisation, discipline, and leadership within the socialist parties. His idea of having a tight-knit exclusive organisation of professional revolutionaries showed he had the coherent theories to be a real threat to Tsarism. According to Alan Wood, Lenin described the 1905 revolution as a ‘dress rehearsal’.
The Rise of Adolf Hitler: Manipulating the Population with Speeches and Propaganda Cameron Bye AP European History Mrs. Tingley March 6th, 2012 The First World War devastated Germany. Almost every German and Austrian family experienced the loss of a loved one. Due to the mass spending during the Great War, inflation overwhelmed the economy. Millions succumbed to poverty and unemployment. Because of the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, Germany lost 13% of her territory, which included six million people as well as a large percentage of raw materials.
16% of the 1.8million who died at war were conscripted and all families were somehow impacted by the war, which consequently led to a decline in the popularity of the Royal Family. People famously said “what family is going to survive war with all six sons alive?” in reference to the Kaiser’s six sons as awareness was spreading that there was an inequality of sacrifice among classes. The divisions between classes which had previously existed were now even greater. Peasantry and rural producers felt alienated by government regulations and were now hampered by the lack of labour and there was also huge resentment towards the Junkers who maintained their tax privileges until 1916. The urban working class also suffered due to the rise of the black market, which was the source of
In 1861, Tsar Alexander II began to emancipate the serf community and in the following two years over twenty-five million serfs were given their freedom. At first this was seen by the working lower class as a step in the right direction in gaining political representation and basic human rights. Alexander’s reforms, however, suited only the needs of the wealthy Romanov dynasty whilst the people of Russia continued to suffer. Industrialisation brought the working class into urban centres where they worked long hours in factories with terrible conditions for a less-than meagre pay. Essentially, by the turn of the century, the majority of the population of Russia was made up of a poor, working lower class who suffered immensely at the hands of the Romanov dynasty.