The Bolshevik and Chinese Communist revolutions shared similar political climates leading up to their eventual success in gaining control of their respective states. Both revolutions would have to overthrow governments put in place by revolutions. The nations in which both revolutions occurred in would also have a strong history in a long standing form of government. These revolutions were both able to achieve success largely in part due to their nations previous political climates.
The Bolshevik revolution, also known as the October revolution, put in place the third governing body in Russia in a year. From the mid 1400s until 1917 the Tsarist Autocracy governed over Russia. The ruler of Russia during this time was the Tsar, much like a kind in European monarchies. The Tsar’s power was absolute. Other
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The conflict led to extreme amounts of casualties, a severe food shortage throughout the nation, and increased inflation. These effects of the war ultimately led to the army turning against the tsar, the public's dissatisfaction with the quality of life in Russia and widespread suffering would ultimately lead to rebellion. This uprising would eventually lead to the Tsar abdicating power and would be known as the February revolution. This revolution would create a provisional government. The new government was weak and with a large and a growing support base the Bolsheviks began taking positions in the government. Then in late at night on the sixth of November in 1917, the Bolsheviks took control of the government. This was followed by a brief Russian civil war in which the Bolsheviks would emerge victorious and found the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics.
While the Bolshevik revolution would take control of its nation after overthrowing a government put in place by a revolution after years of stability, the Chinese communist revolution would form a government that would appear to be one of many
The Bolshevik Revolution as well as the Russian Civil War had established the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). The USSR is a communist state, and Western republics and capitalists feared the
The Chinese communist party gained much power after going after and attacking the Kuomintang and its anti communist policies into Taiwan. With the growth of the communist party’s power, the peasant and lower class experienced major influence that would change the course of their lives forever. Chinese peasants and the Chinese communist party between circa 1925 and circa 1950 had a relationship in which the party fostered and cared the state of the people. This created a sense of nationalism and pride for the peasants, while they were advocating social equality, and showing anti-Japanese sentiment. First of all, the Chinese communist party greatly influenced the peasant class in sparking and igniting a sense of nationalistic unity into the
The Russian Revolution of 1917 marked the end of the Romanov dynasty and centuries of Russian Imperial rule. During the Russian Revolution, the Bolsheviks, led by leftist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin seized power and destroyed the tradition of czarist rule. Civil War broke out in Russia between the Red and White Armies. The Red Army fought for the Lenin’s Bolshevik government. The White Army represented a large group of monarchists, capitalists and supporters of democratic socialism.
There are different types of revolutions all around the world. English, American, French, and Latin Revolutions are one the most important ones that happened. These revolutions all have something in common. All of them emphasize the enlightenment idea of freedom. Although all of these revolutions started differently they ended up making a change.
The American, Mexican, and French revolutions were similar and different in their own ways. There was a common cause, goal, and effect of each of these three revolutions in addition to the unique causes, goals, and effects. All of these revolutions were caused by political instability, had the common goal of political reformation that was met through revolutionary events, that resulted in the formation and adoption of a new constitution and form of government. There were many causes that led up to these three revolutions, some are shared by all three, some only by two, and some are unique causes. All three of these revolutions were caused by political instability in the country these revolutions took place in.
Russian Revolution In 1922, as a result of the Russian Revolution, a new political party emerged: the USSR or the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union was the world’s first communist state. Communism was a new political and economic model that was supposed to get rid of class distinction. From the beginning, communism opposed capitalism and capitalist countries like the United States. The Russian Revolution united the socialists against the capitalists, with the USSR, a communist country, siding with the socialists.
Although World War I was to soon come to an end, a wave of fear of radicals and communists emerged throughout the United States in 1917. The hysteria lingered as Russia was taken over by a communist group in 1917 known as the Bolsheviks. From the moment this Russian Revolution occurred, there was a widespread fear of possible communist uprisings in the United States. Communism is a political system that pairs a socialist or command economy with a totalitarian government. Within a communist system, there is no private ownership of businesses or property.
The Russian revolution resulted in the overthrow of the country’s monarchy and the establishment of the Soviet Union. It started off with many protests and strikes that forced Tsar Nicholas II out of power. As a result, a provisional government was put in place but it was weak and ineffective so the Bolsheviks took control and established a socialist government. The Bolshevik Revolution was caused by a combination of unstable and corrupt monarchies, unfair treatment of the populace, and a lagging industry, which eventually led to the creation of the USSR.
Although Russia was once again in a terrible position for war the fought in the first World War and their country and its people faced further hardships. The people began to revolt and took over the government and then assassinated Nicholas II’s entire
Aron Sze October 21, 14 Mr. Carpenter History 10-F The October Revolution The Great War lasted longer than most people had expected. It put a huge strain on most countries involved in the war. The October Revolution revolved mainly around the Bolsheviks finding distaste in the corrupt leadership of the Czar’s, and later on the Provisional government. The ongoing war took a tremendous toll on Russia, and it led to the impending revolution that began on February of the year 1917 and it lasted all the way to November 1917. After a lot of talking and negotiations, Russia led by Vladimir Lenin dropped out of the war on the 15th of December 1917.
The French Revolution and the Russian Revolution have an astronomical amount of similarities. Such as in their government, the poverty/class structure and the radical uprisings. For example, both countries had strict rule, France having absolute monarchy and Russia having autocracy, prior to the revolutions. Poverty and bread shortages were very common amongst the peasantry during both revolutions. Another example is they both had a high populations of peasants and workers in their time.
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).
“Is what you want? A miserable little bourgeois republic? In the name of the great Soviet republic of labour we declare war to the death on such a government!” (Bukharin, 1917) . The Russians were fed up of being poorly treated by their own country, so they decided to take a stance.
The Bolsheviks introduced political, economic and social reforms as they sought to consolidate power between 1917-1924. These policies appealed to many of Russia’s citizens, as the people believed that the reforms would give them a better future. There would be a redistribution of land, better working conditions and wages, a withdraw from the World War that had destroyed the economy, and the promise of ‘Peace, Land, Bread’. At the beginning of 1917, Russia was in a poor state; people starved, the population decreased, and conscription was hard to enforce. The Treaty of Brest Litovsk, War Communism and the New Economic Policy contributed to the Bolsheviks consolidation of power.
Causes of the Russian Revolution The early 1900s were a turbulent time in Russia’s long and intriguing history as the country went through revolutions that brought it from a monarchy to a communist run state. Many factors were involved in this change of Russia’s government, such as war bringing a great famine to the people of Russia. The peasants and working class became very angry during this time period because of the Czar’s ignorance of the people's suffering and inequality in the country. There are several important main events that brought about the communist revolution in Russia and that caused it to succeed.