Question

Examine the factors that made the Russian monarchy unpopular and created conditions for a revolution during the 20th century.

Answer 1

The Russian Revolution of 1917 was one of the most explosive political events of the twentieth century. The violent revolution 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 rule. The Bolsheviks would later become the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

When Was the Russian Revolution?

In 1917, two revolutions swept through Russia, ending centuries of imperial rule and setting into motion political and social changes that would lead to the formation of the Soviet Union. While the two revolutionary events took place within a few short months, social unrest in Russia had been simmering for decades.

In the early 1900s, Russia was one of the most impoverished countries in Europe with an enormous peasantry and a growing minority of poor industrial workers.

Much of Western Europe viewed Russia as an undeveloped, backwards society. The Russian Empire practiced serfdom—a form of feudalism in which landless peasants were forced to serve the land-owning nobility—well into the nineteenth century. In contrast, the practice had disappeared in most of Western Europe by the end of the Middle Ages.

In 1861, the Russian Empire finally abolished serfdom. The emancipation of serfs would influence the events leading up to the Russian Revolution by giving peasants more freedom to organize.

Answer 2

• The 1917 Russian Revolution was one of the 20th Century's most violent revolutionary activities. The turbulent revolution signaled the end of the "Romanov dynasty & Russian Colonial rule" centuries ago.
• Explanation:
• Before the 1900s, Russia was one of Europe's poorest nations, and was regarded as a backward nation. Richer society was dominated by the peasants and poor factory workers.
• Only in the early 1900s did the nation begin its process of industrialization, that brought enormous social &  political changes.
• Russians started voicing their frustration with the weak administration of Czar Nicholas as overcrowded & poverty stricken living conditions deteriorated in most towns.
• Wide demonstrations by Russian workers resulted in the 1905 Gruesome Sunday massacre. The czar 's troops killed or injured hundreds of demonstrators.
• Czar Nicholas II pledged a series of measures for economic growth in response to the 1st revolution.
• In August 1914, however, Russia entered WWI in support of the Serbs & their allies in Britain & France. That was catastrophic since the Germans were better prepared for their enemies.
• Russian losses & fatalities were so high in the military, & as fuel & food shortages plagued the nation amongst the population.
• The Czar also struggled to regulate corruption at the height of the economic crisis because the Russian economy remained retrograde.
• The Duma, the "Russian parliament" formed after the 1905 revolution , was repeatedly offended by Nicholas, when the Duma opposed Nicholas will.
• The February Revolution sparked yet another conflict between the factory workers and the police on March 8, 1917. Czar Nicholas subsequently abdicated the throne seven days later.
• Even after all these, the war minister, Alexander Kerensky, continued the war in Russia, alleviating the problems with food supply in Russia. Upheaval intensified and crops were plundered & food riots erupted in the towns.
• The Duma formed a "provisional government" however the socialist revolutionaries headed by the leader of the Bolshevik Party, Vladimir Lenin, immediately refuted it.
• In Petrograd, now St. Petersburg, the Bolsheviks and their allies had captured govt buildings & other important locations.
• They then formed a new govt with Lenin becoming the tyrant of the first communist nation globally .
• This Revolution laid the foundation for communism to grow which affected other nations like China.

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