The Russian Revolution (BookRags) Essay | Essay

This student essay consists of approximately 4 pages of analysis of The Russian Revolution.

The Russian Revolution (BookRags) Essay | Essay

This student essay consists of approximately 4 pages of analysis of The Russian Revolution.
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The Russian Revolution

Summary: Examines the causes and the effects of the Russian Revolution. Focuses on political reasons, socioeconomic reasons, and philosophic causes. Examines the state of post revolution Russia and argues that revolutionaries rapidly forgot their goals of equality and socialist society, and just like the Czarist regime, turned the nation into an autocratic bureaucracy.
One of the biggest and most interesting revolutions the world has known is doubtlessly the Russian October revolution. This revolution was caused by political reasons, socioeconomic reasons, and philosophic reasons. Its effects changed the course of history.

First of all, the revolution had several political causes. One of these causes was the nature of the czarist regime. This regime, in his last days became an autocratic bureaucracy that relied on force to impose it's will on people. This regime passed some laws such as "The emancipation edict" that opened the way to industrialization, but had terrible consequences on workers and peasants making them more receptive to radical ideas such as nihilism, anarchism and communism. It also prosecuted the non-Russian nationalities throughout the empire. Another political cause was that Russia was divided into several political parties. Some of these parties were asking for a constitutional monarchy, but the largest...

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