Russian Revolution: Land, Peace And Bread

There are three main causes of the Russian Revolution, the peasants wanted the Bolshevik’s promise of “Land, Peace and Bread”. While it is debatable if the Bolsheviks ever fully met all of their promises to the Russian people, the populace were desperate for change and turned to the Bolsheviks as their last hope. The Russian Empire was mostly comprised of peasants who were bound to live, work and die on the land they lived on. There also was a small ruling class which owned all of the land and reaped all of its profits. This bred bitterness among the peasants as they did the hard work, yet the reward of their labor went to a few aristocrats and the Czar. The Bolsheviks after assuming power had instituted a sweeping land reform which distributed land from the aristocracy to the peasants. The plan was so meticulous that the Bolsheviks were careful to consider quality of the land being distributed, number of workers who could work the land, and even granted equality of access to who can request newly distributed land.

It became abundantly clear the Russian Empire couldn’t possibly compete with a much more technologically advanced Germany/Austria-Hungary. As a result, more than 7.7 Russian soldiers were dead or wounded and 2 million Russian civilians were dead. As a result, the Germans and Austrians kept pushing deeper into Russian territory unchallenged and bringing havoc to the countryside. To make problems worse, even after the Czar abdicated power to the provisional government, they continued the war effort, which led to more needless Russian bloodshed. As a result, when the Bolsheviks took power, they honored this promise by signing the Brest-Litovsk treaty, in which Russia would get the peace it badly desires in exchange for losing most of its territories in the Eastern