Comparing Doctor Zhivago And The Tsarist Regime

First there prisons, then there were gulags, the Russian Revolution truly did create an equal country, but the only form of equality they created was equality of suffering. The Russian Revolution was a controversial event that led to a new state, the USSR. Its goals were to create a classless society where the workers, or proletariat, had control over society and the government. In order to do this, they had to take it from the business owners and landowners, the bourgeoisie.
In Doctor Zhivago, it is interesting to note that while many of the poor and working class people were supportive of the revolution, the upper class and rich either took it as a joke or were secretly hedging their bets, as in the case of Victor Komarovsky who wanted to make sure he stayed influential, regardless of who won. However, those who did joke about it, they soon regretted it. Once the government confiscated land and other forms of wealth, they made it public and allowed the people to use it. However, the people did not dramatically improve, because no one was creating lots of wealth and production was weakening as well. While the Tsarist Regime was a terrible and violent one, the communist one did not improve things, and in some ways made things worse. Under both regimes in the movie, the lives of common people did not improve economically, and for …show more content…
Doctor Zhivago does a great job of portraying this through the lens of poets, KGB officers, doctors, revolutionaries, and political insiders. The movie shows the terrors of the revolution without minimizing the sufferings of the people beforehand and does give some legitimacy for a revolution, but clearly shows the problems with the Soviet Union and the communist government after the Russian Revolution. Doctor Zhivago will continue to stand the test of time as a great