explain the Russian bolshevik revolution of 1917 to 19 21 as a model of national liberation
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Lenin arrived from exile in the spring of 1917, he joined the Bolshevik Party in Russia whose goal was to overthrow the Provisional Government and set up a government for the proletariat. The soldiers began to ask for land, just as their fellow peasants were
The Great War of 1914-1918 had been the faithful mother of revolutions. The Russian Revolution was the direct consequence of the WWI. It is one of the most important results of the war. The Bolshevik Revolution shook thee Russian society to its very foundation.
There were two revolutions: the political and the social.
Causes:
"The roots of the Russian Revolution", says Lipson, "lie deep embedded in the history of Russia."
1. Western Influence: The French revolution influenced the intelligentsia of Russia.
2. Autocracy
3. Social Conditions
4. Emancipation of Serfs - no emancipation.
5. The terrorists
6. The Industrial Revolution
7. Foreign policy of the Czars.
In November 1917 the Bolsheviks had seized power in Russia, not from Czardom, but from the Provisional Liberal Government of Kerensky, which six months earlier had overthrown the Czardom. Lenin who had created the Bolshevik Party as the agency of revolution, was the architect of the new state. Lenin was the prophet and the Communist Party the church of Russian Communism.
The Revolution brought a new force into political and international politics - 'Socialism', and opened up a new chapter in the history of the world.