1917 Dbq Russian Revolution

In the year 1917, multiple revolutions took place including the october revolution and the february revolution. The cause for these revolutions is to end imperial rule from other interfering countries. The reason why the russian revolution started was because people were unhappy with their king, Nicholas 2 who believed in government corruption. Once the Russian Revolution started people started to gain more support and more benefits from the government. One reason why the russian revolution of 1917 have the support of the people because the revolution mostly benefited the working class. Before the revolution the government was corrupt and mostly paid attention to the upper class, because the government workers were full of upper -class people. Every change they make supported the rich class., and didn’t pay any attention to the middle class. So the supported the middle class and the lower class mostly. In document 1 it said that “change of government would allow fulfillment of hopes for peace, land distribution... “ this proved they were doing everything they can to help people. Also they said that they will equally distribute the land distribution. This way there is no unequal disadvantage between all the classes. Also they didn’t discriminate the lower …show more content…
In the olden times, there was discrimination between men and women. Women were deprived of jobs and government posts. But during the russian revolution they had the support of women. In document 4 it describes how a woman would go into the workforce, “When i went to the factory the workers treated me kindly and thought me how to work on machines.” This proves that they started to respect women more and they started to make money. Also document 5 supports this also when it states that “Women join the cooperatives.” this also proves that women started to gain more respect in