Russian+Revolution

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1917, Lenin bring his revolution army strike the old emperor government, and formed USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republic). From the example of Russia, the Communism theory has been proved that it can be used in the real world. Since USSR has been formed and the works is free, Communism start to spread out most around Europe and Asia. Since USSR is first country who get success from a revolution, some other Communist country also learn how Russian Revolution was started. Therefore we can say that Russian Revolution was the beginning and examples for all the Communism revolution around the World.
 * __General Information about the Russian Revolution__**
 * __Causes__**

By the end of 1904, Marxism was created as a political system to replace czar.

During 1905, as russia try to catch up other western countries, they needed rapid economic growth. Therefore, russia began to industrialize at a high rate. It made possible for russia to urbanize most of thier cities. However, rapid industrialization caused bad working condition, low pay and long working hour. For more info

<"On January 22, 1905, Father Georgi Gapon, an Orthodox priest, led a peaceful demonstration in which thousands of workers in St. Petersburg marched to the czar's palace to present a list of demands. Even though the government knew about this protest and allowed it to occur, Nicholas failed to be present to accept the document. Firing on the marchers, his troops killed more than 100 people and wounded hundreds more.

When the word spread about "Bloody Sunday," strikes and protests erupted all across Russia. Nicholas promised in March to convene a consultative assembly to assist the czar in the discussion of legislative bills. Other minor concessions failed to appease the country, and unrest continued, including the mutiny of the crew of the battleship Potemkin in June. In early October, a general strike spread across Russia and paralyzed the entire country.

As a result, Nicholas reluctantly approved a manifesto drawn up by Sergei Witte, a leading statesman. This October Manifesto granted personal inviolability and freedom of conscience, speech, assembly, and association. It promised a broader electorate for a new assembly and stated that no law would become effective without the consent of the state Duma (legislature).

Unrest continued into 1906 before finally ending. The czar, although still the supreme autocrat (Nicholas announced the Fundamental Laws in April 1906), was no longer an absolute monarch. The first steps had been taken to reform the Russian state. Those steps would lead to the Russian Revolution of 1917." From ABC - CLIO database>

__//**"Russian Revolution of 1905." World History: The Modern Era. 2009. ABC-CLIO. 12 Mar. 2009 <**//__[|//**http://www.worldhistory.abc-clio.com**//]

1905 russian revolution is called 'Bloody Sunday'.

The reason why it's called 'Bloody Sunday' is because about 100 people was killed and more than 100 people was injured due to protesting against the government (Crowd -mostly workers- headed to czar's palace.Father gerogi gapon was leading them).

All the workers were upset with thier working conditon.

Also, russia troops were defeated by japanese during 1904-1905. This led to further 'social unrest'.

Revolution during 1917 caused the russain royal government to be replaced to communist government.  The biggest reason for 1917 revolution(also known as march revolution) is the first world war during 1914. Compared other country(Europe), Russian army was very weak. Therefore, national economy dramatically decreased. As a result, during 1915, one of the government party 'Kadet' started to influence workers full of rage. As 1917 begins, more than 1330 strike case has been reported. Soon, the distribution of food started in the middle of Feburary and ended on 8th of March (Saint Petersburg-capital). As soon as it ends, women workers started to prtoest against the government and led to the uprising of all citizens. At the end, they captured the governement office. Finally, on March 13th, Aleksandrovich Nikolai II announced the abdication of his throne and his brother Aleksandrovich Mikhail also refused to take over his place which means the end of royal government. After the abdication of Nikolai, 'Kadet'(political party) took important place and position in the provisional government. However, constant participation of war made russian to lose trust for 'Kadet'.

 Since Russia become USSR, Marxium theory has been sucessfully proved that it works as an poltical ideology by Lenin. Soviet Union was the first Communist country, therefore many theorical Communist has seen hope, most Communist leaders has build a new government for the country from the way of armory conflict.
 * __Consequences__**

Economic Consequences: After Lenin formed the country, he died after two years, then Joseph Stalin took over the power. Stalin made USSR had some big change, Russia was a poor farming Europe country before but Stalin has start his Industraliz plan in April 1925. Although the plan has some mistake during the plan but in total we can say it is succeed.

Stalin designed another policy which call "The concentration of farming".Which means that a department for all the land, that made some unhappienes of the farmer but Stalin never cares about that. Two of the policy has been done, Stalin has formed a very concentrated style of government.

The new style of economic- Command economy

The economic theory in Marxism has been successfully proved that it works for a nation. In some point, it's even better and stronger than the Free market economic (Capitalism). During 1929, during the time when the world is suffering from the economic crisis. The great Soviet Union still have enough money to keep up with the developing of economic, they build factories everywhere (Stalin's industrialize plan). They have build a huge factory in Staling-red and it has become the center of the world economic.

Today, the world's economic organization has understand the Command economy has many undeveloped ideas. But Stalin in Russia used the idea of Command economic involved with his own idea (dictatorship).

During the time of Joseph Stalin, he's totally rule the country with his strong political power. Therefore he has set some very strict rules on his Industrialize plan, the people who does not follow his rules or try to being lazy will be badly punished. So the industrialize work in Soviet Union that 10 years was quite successful. It made USSR become the second strongest country in economic.

People does not allowed to have their own business, they can only find a way to work from the public company. Usually when people work in the public business it would have a problem that the workers are not working (lazy, because they will get money anyway). Or problems like people steal the public properties. These problems has occur and can not be solved in China, Cuba, North Korea, etc and that's one of the main reason that cause these countries poor. But Stalin has solved all of these problems by force.

Marxism theory does not have too much information on economic, the new theory of "Planned economic" was mostly designed by Lenin.

Command economy is a economic theory which is fully controlled by the government, some Socialist country does not even have "Personal business". All of the business are given access from the government and the stock also belongs to the government. Some more opened Socialist country allow the country to have very limited personal business, but government still tells them what they should process. Which means the entire country's economic are fully controlled by the government.

Some countries called that's not democracy, but actually only the government knows what's the country need the most, so if they take control with the economic then it is easier for them to build a stable economic structure. Anyway, this is a great invention during the time of USSR.

Social Consequences: Different Communist country has different social environment, USSR was quite a open country.

People in USSR was the first group of people who experience the power of Communist government. At USSR, people does not allow to have any personal properties. The "Planned economic" has totally become the main style of country economic development. Therefore, Free Market economic are no longer allowed in the country, no one has any business so the only choice they have is to find a job in the government business. Also, since Stalin organize the style of Farming. More people has also become a farmer to work in the government's farming land. Therefore people does not have any Personal properties which means that everybody has work for the same people and organization: Their government and their leader! The Society has sink into the economic control of the government.

The mental social consequences of the people are mostly same for all "extreme" Communist country. They worship their leaders and the great Communist Party. They think that serve to their leader and the party is serve to the other peoples, which means free the people around the globe from the suffer of the Capitalist. Their thinking has fully involved with their Communist government and their Leader.

Some of people even believe that their leader is like a god, like a god comes down from the heaven to save the human being from the suffer. Therefore some people worship their leader, that also an important point to form the theory of Juche idea just like North Korea.

One of the big social consequences is that they have divide people into many different levels. For example, if you have 10000RMB that you have stored in your bank before and the money comes from your old business. Then the people will see you as a middle class. But if you have no money before and you work as a farmer for a landowner before, then people who see you as a lower class.

In the Communism society, the poorer you are then the better you will be. Middle class will be suffer in the society, and if a revolution comes than these people are in extreme danger. But any upper class will be killed in any time if they have been found. If you are a worker, farmer you will be fine, but if you work in the military then you will feel like you are in the heaven. People will love you so much. That's why everybody want to become part of the army that time. But this situation has changed after Stalin, Khrushchev has made it become more likely to be a normal society.

Political Consequences: United the World!!! The rules for Communism has showed very clearly in Soviet Union, but for USSR it's more likely that we call it Chauvinism.

Chauvinism is basically a kind of Nationalism of Country (Nationalism also include tribe, skin color, etc.). Nationalism is something should never allow to happen in any Communism country, this rule has been proved by many Communist leader. The reason that this should never happen is because the purpose of Communism is to united all Nation in to a piece society, but if you always think that your nation is the best and you always want to be the boss then Communism society shall never by build.

Since the time of Stalin, Stalin has separated Poland in two piece with German Nazis. As a real Communist, he should never do that with the evil Nazi.

Stalin also requer China to separate part of Mogolia. Which is todays outer Mogolia. For the purpose of absorb the shock from the military, therefore Soviet Union can have no more political or military pressure from China.

Stalin and Khrushchev has also build a Military union called Warsaw Pact also called Warsaw Treaty Organization. Which is a military, political and economic support organization. It is a good thing for the goal of Communism society, but Chauvinism has ruled everything. The countries that joined this organization expect a peaceful, helpful organization which can help everybody. But Khrushchev's has made him become the top leader of the organization, he gives command to the country leaders just like how he gives mission to a normal solider. These causes just because Khrushchev's Chauvinism thinking has made think that he's the leader of the biggest nation around the world so he has the right to command the entire Warsaw Pact. Therefore the purpose of this organization has changed. Now, the purpose to build this organization is actually to let USSR control the Europe Socialist country in a better way. This organization can let them stay under control.

Also we can able to see the evil things that Stalin has done to Yugoslavia and the Khrushchev's bad manner to MaoZeDong. Therefore Chauvinism was a very serious problem of USSR.

There are another problem is that USSR has a very high political power concentration, which means that all power usually has a concentration, usually is the leader. These has some advantages and disadvantages.

The advantages of the highly power concentration is that political project can get done very fast, although sometimes the decision can be wrong. Also instead of going through the complicated procedure, the leader of the country can make any decisions right away.

But the disadvantages is that if the leader made a wrong decision then it can bring a disaster to the nation. We can see a good example from Stalin, Stalin has gained too much political power therefore he start the revolution of "Great Purge" for the purpose of keep the pure of the Communist Party. But he killed so many people just because they had different ideas with Stalin on political. Many commander in the army and politician in the government has been killed for no reason, this is also a main reason why USSR are losing at the beginning of WW2. I think that Russian Revolution is a great revolution. Marxism has been prove that it works perfect as a political ideology. At the beginning, Lenin has followed Marxism's thinking, using armory force to build a government belongs to the people. But it is sad that Lenin has died so early. Stalin does not fully understand of Marxism theory, he cause a lot of death and has become a dictator. But he did let USSR become a rich nation, so during the time of Khrushchev USSR can able to start the Cold War with Americans.
 * __Concepts__**

Communism (Marxism) was considered as the most intelligent thinking that human has ever had. Russian Revolution was a good political experience, it let us see what we still need to improve and what have we already achieved.

Russian Revolution has also united a nation called USSR and has become a main force to stop Nazi during WW2, although at some point Stalin was trying to corporate with the Nazi before. But USSR has about 73% people died in the amount of people died in WW2, just from this point we can say that USSR is a great nation, Russian Revolution was a correct revolution. Health and social education and Environments because at that time, Russian economy was very poor. Therefore, in March, 1917 in Petrograd, there were a big strike and insurrection which people request the peace from the war, bread for eating and landd for farming. Moreover, it became a mutiny.
 * __AOI's__**

Also the Environment of the society has a huge change. Communism and Capitalism has a lot of different. That include the change of culture, economic, political, etc. For example, people will have mental change such as in the Communism society people usually will love their leader as their father, which more like that government and people are kind of mixed together. But for Capitalism, people will think what can their president do for them, is their government good enough? Therefore, these big change is something that we can not avoid.

To add to Health and socail education, all the workers had extremely poor working conditions and low payment. Unlike wokers, landowners and loyal families had very luxurious life.  Russian revolution also led to the creation of USSR. During the time of 'Cold War', thousands of factories were built for weapons and massive creation of armed vehicles such as tanks and air planes(jet). We can link this idea ot human ingenuity. Because of the creation of weapons and military development, USSR could became the most powerful country as U.S.A. However, it led to unblance betweeen military and social economy.


 * __Primary Source Assessment__**

This picture is about Nicholas II's who was the King of Russia family. There are his wife, 4 daughters and a son.

This is Lenin's portrait.

They are the Russian soldiers who joined the revolution with flag.

This picture is about 'Bloody Sunday', and as you can see lots of people killed bythe governments.

This is the news paper from The New York Times success of the Russian Revolution and Czar Nicholas II abdicate the throne.



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