The principles that caused the French Revolution, to a great extent, are comparable to those of the 20th century socialist-communist Russian Revolution. France and Russia were, prior to their respective uprisings, plagued with social, economic, and political conflicts. Few of these conflicts were new, many, such as incompetent rulers, had been issues affecting these nations for decades, even centuries. The revolutionaries of the two nations’ were angered by their ineffective monarchies “who let events get quickly out of control” (FC130C: A Comparison of the French and Russian Revolutions), social class inequality, food shortages, faltering economies, and generally harsh living conditions. The French Revolution’s status as the first major, and
