Vegetarianism: The Russian Revolution

In Russia, the proletarians were people who were very important in order to Karl Marx’s philosophy. They were people without any means of production. They had in order to sell their workforce in order in order to pay for themselves or their family ("Dictatorship of the Proletariat") In the past, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels thought that the proletarians were the key in order to a successful revolution. Past attempts at trying out Marx’s ideas occured in France and other countries, but the Russian Revolution of 1917 was the first major attempt at bringing his ideas in order to fruition in Russia. Karl Marx was a Germanic philosopher who believed in power in order to the lower class of society. He thought that everyone should be equal

They led the country into many events, like WW1. But when the Russian army was beat time after time by the Germans, they realized something. The country of Russia realized that because of their badly led army and the governments inefficient prosecution of the war (Russian Revolution of 1917), they were no longer able to keep up with the growing power of their European and Western neighbors. This also hugely disrupted their economy. Because of both of these reasons, the Russians backed out of WW1 in 1917, and their revolution soon

The Petrograd Soviet of Workers’ and Soldiers’ Deputies showed that they had more power in the government than even the provisional government, so they passed a decree which said that the military had to only obey the Petrograd Soviet of Workers’ and Soldiers’ Deputies. This was put into place because the provisional government wanted to continue helping in WW1, which was still going on at this time. Because the provisional government could do nothing against the orders of the Petrograd Soviet of Workers’ and Soldiers’ Deputies. But the only thing that kept the Petrograd Soviet of Workers’ and Soldiers’ Deputies from taking total control of the government from the provisional government was that they were afraid of the conservatives staging a coup to take back control of the government from the Petrograd Soviet of Workers’ and Soldiers’