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    1917, the world is on its heels. The Great War has been spurring on for three years, and Russia was not faring well. The leader of the Russian Empire, Tsar Nicholas II, was a ruthless leader. He suppressed political dissent, and cared not for the starving peasants that he ruled. These peasants, still sore from a massacre in 1905 which left hundreds wounded in the streets. Winds of change were high, and the political surge of communism left many workers feeling the need for revolution. The…

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    In Animal Farm, one of George Orwell’s main goals was to portray the Russian Revolution of 1917 in his writing through character’s, events, and concepts. His goal was clearly shown in his text because many important people of the Russian Revolution were seen through animals, events that took place in the Russian Revolution were reflected in his writing, and many concepts of the time were shown in a different form. He accomplished his goal by using simpler characters and an easier concept to…

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    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…

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    1.Explain the connection between World War I (1914-1918) and the Russian Revolution (1917). In the beginning Russia was sticking up for themselves against the other countries. But then Russia would begin to lose a lot of their men, there was little to no food, which made the Russians demand to drop out of the war. But Czar Nicholas II disagreed and stayed in the war which made more complications with Russia which started the Revolution, 2.Identify or define: (a) Vladimir I. Lenin, (b) Joseph…

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    Russia. Caused mainly by diverse ethnicities, nationalism, problems in the workforce, and peasant unrest, this revolution would be fought by two sides, the Reds and the Whites. By the 1920s the Russian Revolution would peter out, resulting in a communist government in Russia. There were many causes of the Russian Revolution. First of all, there were a plethora of diverse ethnicities scattered throughout Russia. This caused a lot of unrest because…

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    Grigori Rasputin and the 1917 Russian Revolution One of the most significant events of Russian history was the 1917 Revolution. Predating the revolution, Russia was formed of a hierarchy society consisting of four piers; royalty, aristocracy, middle class and peasantry. After the 1917 Revolution, Russia was dismantled and transformed into the Soviet Union under the governance of the Communist Party. The Communist Party consisted of socialists with the objective to modernize their country-as…

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    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.…

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    Stalin feared any source of counter authority, and exhibited this fear by employing the secret police agencies to destroy and suppress the opposition, no matter how brutally. These brutal methods, wether successful or not, certainly inspired fear in Russian citizens, and the secret police adopted a persona as a weapon of the state. Although the KGB and its counterparts started off as brutal, yet fairly disorganized and vague institutions,…

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    emancipation of all Russian serfs was a shocking first in a series of liberal reforms. However, the freeing of the serfs did not end the overarching state of rural poverty in Russia. Therefore, despite superficial and temporary benefits, the emancipation of Russia’s serfs in 1861 did not significantly improve the lives…

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    last couple years and has suffered The Russian people revolted against their Czar, Nicholas II, because they were unhappy with the quality of life and wanted to upgrade their government from the archaic monarchy operating system; Wealth inequality was very much present, with only the upper class having a luxurious life. People took to the streets to protest because of constant food shortages, constant corruption and civil unrest, thus beginning the Russian revolution. After the revolution,…

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