Write about thelegacy of Russian revolution of 1917 in 500 words
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The spread of communism is arguably the greatest legacy of the Russian Revolutions. Historian Eric Hobsbawm, has argued that without the October Revolution, the USSR would not have found itself at the head of a ‘socialist camp’.[7] Further historiography argues that the ‘revolutionary mood’ of the events of 1917 in Russia ‘infected’ distant metropoles on continents such as Australia, Canada and the USA where authorities witnessed mass strikes as workers fought to build unions, raise wages and improve conditions.[8] The ‘colonial periphery’, from 1919, Ireland, Egypt, Iraq, British India and China all beheld resistance against foreign intervention inspired by the Russian Revolutions. It would appear that the Marxist ideology of ‘World Revolution’ would appear to have materialised due to the wave of resistance across the world generated by the Russian Revolutions.