The Russian government treated the working class terribly, leading to several protests and boycotts. S.I. Somov was a Russian Soviet who shared his emotions on his overwhelming experience in the demanding Soviet working class. At a protest, he wrote that there was a “...mystical, religious ecstasy...” that peppered the angry workers who fought for their freedom from the exhausting chains of overwhelming labor and inhumane working conditions (Document 4). He added that the working class was deprived of a lively human soul, and their bitterness and dissatisfaction had “overflowed.” Somov was a worker himself, who first hand experienced the cruelty described and developed his own reasonable emotions towards the topic.
Revolutionists explanation of October Revolution is based on the importance of the force of the masses which created the revolutionary nature of the society leading to cardinal reforms. Lenin was indeed a key figure and the Bolshevik party was able to meet the demand of the masses which raised their popularity. This view shows a direct conflict between a revolutionist and liberal ‘totalitarian’ schools that implements Lenin and Stalin as the only people that caused terror and emplaced control over
President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Did he sign this because he genuinely thought it was the right thing to do? Or did he sign it to better his chances of being re-elected for president? Judging by the presented documents, the evidence leans towards a mixture of both.
Millions of people in Russia during World War 1 were starving or killed. To make matters even worse, the Russian government was falling apart. Riots started to break out in Russia to end the war. Finally in 1918 the war ended which brought remorse to the people of Russia, however it did not last long. Right after World War 1 the October Revolution took place in Russia to allow the “Bolsheviks-the communists-to power over all other possible parties”(28).
The movie portrays the colonists’ rebellion against the British as a way of leaving injustice. During the movie, the main character Benjamin Martin, spoke in front of all the people and told them “If you mean by patriot, am I angry about taxation without representation, well, yes I am. Should the American colonies govern themselves independently? I believe that they can, and they
Since there was such a large peasant population it was easy for them to rebel and win. Many troops were just simply peasants in uniform and when the tsar order the soldiers to shoot the people rebelling they didn’t and the tsar had no power.(doc.2).These peasant were known as proletariats, the growing class of factory and railroad workers, miners, and urban wage earners.(doc.4).Lenin, the leader of the Bolshevik party spread the works of Karl Marx to many factory workers with other socialist.(doc.4).Lenin was profoundly affected by his older brother Alexander’s 1887 execution for being involved in a plot to assassinate the tsar.(doc.5).The peasants tried to make a petition to overthrow the tsar’s reign but he refused to meet with them.(doc.1)This gave the peasants almost no choice but to revolt. Finally, in March the tsar is overthrown and within about a day there were no signs of the tsar because the peasants had burned or taken down everything that even made you think of him. Little did the Russians know that it was more difficult to construct a government than to destroy
Geroid Robinson reiterates this idea ‘the importance of the impact…on the growth of the Russian revolutionary movement' can be seen since the emancipation of the peasants
As the strikes increased, tsar Nicholas II had responded to the plead of the working class with the October Manifesto. In the book, “Major Problems in the History of Imperial Russia”, by James Cracraft, contains a document titled, “The October Manifesto of Nicholas II, 1905”. This document was Nicholas II response to the Russian Revolution of 1905, as it addressed the basic civil rights to the people and the creation of an elected parliament which was known as the State Duma. In the beginning of the document, Nicholas states that the riots are causing the nation despair and to obliged with theses riots and disturbances, he will unite the government. “We believe it necessary to unify the operations of the higher government.
Imagine living everyday having to live under someone who intimidates you and has power over you, the only way to get out is to speak up and defend yourself. During the Russian Revolution in 1917, Russia was called the Soviet Union. One main leader during this time was Joseph Stalin. He was a major tyrant in the government and believed that getting rid of anyone who contradicted him or his beliefs would help him maintain power. He led a communist civilization during this time, and corrupted the government of the Soviet Union by abusing his power.
The Russian Revolution led to extremely difficult times for Russian citizens because of the social, economic and cultural implications that the Communist regime led. Many have read about the scars that the Stalin and Lenin regime left. Stalin’s drastic economic turn led to the Russian people making massive economic, social sacrifices and cultural sacrifices that many of us now take for granted. Before the Communist movement within Russia occurred the standard of living was very comfortable. However, when Stalin came into power much of the economy was “not up to his standard” and he wanted Russia to become the “Soviet America, modernizing the USSR as quickly as he could” (152, Corhin, Fiehn).
The Russian Revolution, which was started by Lenin and his followers, was a rebellion that occurred in 1917 which forced higher powers to act to the needs of the lower class. For instance, many citizens were worried for their protection in consequence to the lack of survival necessities due to an early drought. Furthermore, their current czar during the time was incapable for his position as a czar and made horrendous decisions as czar. For example, when the czar, Nicholas, entered in World War I, he sent untrained troops into countless battles of failure which costed in mass amounts of lost life (paragraph 23).
Andre Abi Haidar PSPA 210 INTRODUCTION It is always difficult to write about and discuss Karl Marx, or more importantly the applications of Marx’s theories, due to the fact that he inspired and gave rise to many movements and revolutionaries, not all of which follow his theories to the point. Although Marx tends to be equated with Communism, it might not seem righteous to blame him for whatever shortcomings occurred when his theories were put to the test; Marx passed away well before the revolution in Russia, and he played no role in the emergence of the totalitarian regime at the time. When discussing Marx, however, Vladimir Lenin is one of the biggest highlights when it comes to studying the outcomes of Marx’s theories.
With their newly acquired power after the October Revolution, the Bolsheviks and their leader, Vladimir Lenin, anticipated opposition in the very near future. To combat this inevitable force against them, Lenin proposed the notion of creating “a people’s militia and to fuse it with the army (the standing army to be replaced by the arming of the entire people.)” Its purpose was to transform the current Imperial Army, whose morale had been broken-down by combat and poor leadership, into a well-oiled military machine. Thus, the Workers-Peasant Red Army was created in January of 1918, made up of what was thought to be the best of the working class. With the combined influence of both Lenin and his right-hand man Leon Trotsky, together were able to motivate and push the Worker and Peasant classes to join the fight as the Red Army and secure power.
The lava of the revolution had not yet cooled and solidified into a crust of bureaucratic conservatism, as it would later happen with the rise of the Stalinist bureaucracy. From the turbulent period of the October Revolution a young generation of writers, artists and composers was born. Some of them had an understanding of the politically established disputes and dilemmas, but impulsively gravitated towards the October Revolution and Bolshevism, which in some way corresponded to their own rebellious spirit, to the emaciated rejection of the old and the strained effort towards new forms of artistic expression.
After the October Revolution in 1917 and the start of the Russian Civil War, life for indigenous Russians as well as certain foreigners began to change dramatically with political and economic reform. By the end of War Communism, and with the enactment of Vladimir Lenin’s New Economic Policy, a commoner in Russia saw his/her life beginning to focus on work and education. Economic stability was underway, but not yet achieved during the 1920s when workers witnessed empty shops and an overall lack of food. However, this new USSR had a few majors goal, to set up a root population, and collectivization and industrialization. Previously, the inorodtsy or non-Russki population in Russia were in large part deterred from participating in administration,
