Compare And Contrast The American And Russian Revolution

The American and Russian Revolutions are both countries that wanted freedoms, yet their ways to achieve that were different from one another. This essay will compare and contrast these two countries based on their Political ideas. Social Structures, Methods, and Strategies and Economics. By doing so, we will learn which one was more successful and why.

The American and Russian governments had different ideas of what they wanted to implant in their countries. America’s founding fathers picked up the idea that all men are created with liberty, Freedom of speech, Freedom of religion, due process of law, and freedom of assembly. For example in the Declaration of Independence, it says: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are

For example, The Stamp Act of 1763 stated that all American newspapers, legal documents, and magazines, had to be stamped with British royal stamps. They were only allowed to pay tax with the British ponds and not their own money currency. American colonists were tired of British rules and making them pay taxes. So in 1773, when the tea came to the border of the British harbor, they all took it and dumped it into the harbor. And this started to lead to the American Revolution. The Quartering Act of 1774 was an act where American colonists had to house and feed the British soldiers. The Townshend Acts was an act passed by a man named Charles Townshend To raise as much money from the American colonists. To illustrate this idea the Declaration of Independence it says “Popular sovereignty is the idea that the most legitimate form of constitutional government is a government driven by us—not a monarch and not an aristocracy—but by us, the American people” This shows us that the Founding Fathers wanted the people to be in charge, not the government. And the government is not allowed to pass random acts and be unfair, and the people are in control. After the Revolution, the Founding Fathers kept with their

The new Russian policy NEP was a policy where small industries were returned to private owners but big industries were still owned by the government. The peasantry were allowed to own their own land and they still pay taxes to the government. NEP gave Russia a more stable environment. But the NEP was considered not a permanent policy only until the Russian economy would pick up again. We can see in this writing by Britacca “The New Economic Policy reintroduced a measure of stability to the economy and allowed the Soviet people to recover from years of war, civil war, and governmental mismanagement.” After everything that happened to the Russian people, they were scared to speak out against the government ever again, because of what happened in the past if you did. Overall Lenin and the Bolsheviks failed the people of Russia by Promising them Freedom, land, better life and they never went through with any of it. They basically went back to how the Czar ran Russia which was the thing that Lenin and the Bolshab=vicks wanted to abolish. In the end, The American and the Russian revolution were aiming for a lot of similar things at first but only America went through