Battleship Potemkin: The Russian Revolution

Every country goes through or experiences something traumatic and drastic that changes the country’s paths along with their citizen forever and goes down in history, and for Russians that is the Russian Revolution. And with the Russian Revolutions comes a string of cause and effects leading to the “big event”. The Russian revolution brought a lot of transformation replacing the traditional monarchy to the world’s first ever communist state. The Russian revolution came incontinently but the reasons why could be traced back to decades. While the main cause of the revolution could be blamed on World War I, there was equally important events to recognize like for example peasant poverty, the February Revolution, and even the return of Lenin to Russia along with many others. …show more content…
at this point the peasants were becoming urbanized and now gaining a new worldview. This is when class deviation become prominent and it is shown in the film Battleship Potemkin, when the soldiers were treated unfairly and given poor living conditions. Poverty was not only an issue in Russia, this is still very present and alive around the world. In American the poverty rate is as high as 14.3 percent and in California alone 38 percent of the community lives below the poverty level and that is but better compared to other 3rd world countries which are suffering exactly like Russians did when it comes to food shortages and social