Compare the causes of french revolution of 1789 and the russian revolution of 1917
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Both of those upheavals might not have achieved their goals and sometimes catalyzed periods of terror and bloodshed, but both the French and Russian Revolutions played a huge role in shaping the world as we know it today by proving that the people itself, not just the ruling class, could achieve power. They both:
overthrew the monarchy, mainly because of strong dissatisfaction with the regimes among the people, which in France before 1789 was occupied by King Louis XVI and his wife Marie Antoinette. Before 1917, Russia was under a Tsarist autocracy led by Nicholas II. There was huge wealth inequality in both pre-revolutionary France and later days of imperial Russia - the aristocracy/bourgeoisie was splurging their wealth while most French and Russian citizens in both periods weren’t even literate and experienced horrible living conditions in which even a loaf of bread costed too much.
established republics. France had turned itself into the French First Republic. Several nation-states joined Russia as parts of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, or the USSR.
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Both of those upheavals might not have achieved their goals and sometimes catalyzed periods of terror and bloodshed, but both the French and Russian Revolutions played a huge role in shaping the world as we know it today by proving that the people itself, not just the ruling class, could achieve power.
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