St. Petersburg College

Russian Revolution Writing Assignment Within the year of 1917, two revolutions took place in the country of Russia. The two revolutions were known as the February Revolution and the October Revolution. The first revolution happened in February of 1917, the Autocracy that was ruling Russia was overthrown and a provisional government was put in its place. The Second revolution happened in October 1917, the provisional government was overthrown and dismantled by Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks…

The Animal Farm and Russian Revolution have many similarities. George Orwell based the Animal farm on the Russian Revolution. Animal Farm and Russian Revolution were both brutal and had a ended to it. This paper will show how George Orwell based Animal Farm on the Russian Revolution. An overview of the Russian Revolution of 1917, two revolutions, the first of which, in February [March, New Style], overthrew the imperial government and the second of which, in October [November], placed the…

“The Capitalists will sell us the rope to which we will hang them” a quote by the infamous Vladimir Lenin, the leader and the founder of the Bolshevik (Communist) regime. Who destroyed Russia’s state of Monarchy to a state of Communism. It all officially started March 8th, 1917. Of course, this is only the official start date of the revolution, many other events have led up to this. The revolution. Better known as the February Revolution (Russia used the Julian calendar, thus the name “February…

Petersburg, Russia he was a believer in marxism. Marxism is the idea of the overthrow of a government by the people, usually the poor or lower class. Leninism is ideas where everyone is equal but needs a group of leaders to lead them, and communism needs to…

1. How did World War One lead to a revolution in Russia? WWI led to the revolution in Russia because the tsarist government was unprepared for the problems the war magnified. Although problem persisted in Russia, such as ill-led and ill-armed armies, the war proved that Russia was technological behind when compared to other major world powers. As a result, the tsar’s control over the armed forces was seen as inefficient due to the death of 2 million soldiers and the wounded or captured 4 to 6…

The following year in 1905, the Russians suffered defeat after defeat against the underestimated power of the Japanese military. Because the Russians feared losing Port Arthur once again, the newly named Russian Second Pacific squadron began an 18,000 mile trip in attempt to assist the Russian ships occupying Port Arthur. The squadron struggled on their trip across the sea. The ships ran on coal which the Russians had to carry on board due to the fact that they could not stop at neutral coal…

WWI erupts and Russia has a series of defeats that causes its people to be displeased with Tsar Nicholas (Wade, XIII). Tsar Nicholas II was forced to step down after the February Revolution (Barnes, n. pag.). The Duma Committee and Petrograd Soviet leaders announce the new government called the “Provisional Government” (Merriman & Winter, n. pag.). The new “Provisional Government” consisted of liberals, moderate socialists, and radical left socialists (Merriman & Winter, n. pag.). The liberals…

How was life as a Bolshevik? George Orwell thought the Bolshevik played a big part in Russian History therefore including them in the book Animal Farm. In George Orwell book Animal Farm it best explains to readers what the Bolshevik were for and about. The Bolsheviks were members of a Russian Social- Democratic Workers Party led by Lenin. He eventually had control over the Russian Government and became dominant political power. The group originally came about at the party’s second congress in…

In October 7, 1952 St.Petersburg Russia Vladimir Putin was born. Vladimir Putin is the current president of Russia as of today. To continue with that Vladimir had a spouse name Lyudmila Putina (Divorced). And in June 6 , 2013 on a broadcast Vladimir and Lyudmila announce that they’re marriage is over. He also has two children both girls named Yektarina and Maria. The whole family of The “Putin’s” religion are orthodox Christianity. And in May 7, 2000 Vladimir Putin is sworn in to be the…

The snow falls heavily on January 30, 1905 and the light powder begins to cover the thousands of bodies that lay strewn, lifeless in the streets. Among the figures of men and women you can see, "children's corpses lay in the snow" (The Last Tsar of Russia). Tsar Nicholas II was the last tsar of Russia. He was a family man with no desire to rule and did so poorly. He would have driven Russia into the ground had not been forced to advocate. Tsar Nicholas led Russia into many defeats and his…