Post on 19-Apr-2020
THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
PAGES 107-109
“SIMILAR” TO THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
CAUSES OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
• Economic causes:
• Medieval (rural) economy.
• Social causes:
• The ruler, an absolute monarch, Tsar.
• Political causes:
• The common people had no representation at all in the government.
• The people were sick and tired of WW1, and their situation.
FEBRUARY & OCTOBER
TWO REVOLUTIONS
• February Revolution 1917:
• Tsar and his family overthrown; people tired of not being listen.
• Russia becomes a republic; the execution of the Tsar and family.
• But, the new leaders kept Russia involved in WW1.
• October Revolution 1917:
• Lenin, leader of the Bolsheviks, started a civil war.
• Ideas based on Karl Marx and The Communist Manifesto.
THE FIRST COMMUNIST STATE
UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS
• By 1920, L. Trotsky with the Red Army won the civil war.
• Lenin was the state’s leader.
• Leadership based on the Soviets.
• The Communist Party was the only legal party.
• From the theory (Marx) to the practice (Lenin): the Communist System in political form.
• Total opposition to the capitalism.
THE BASIC CHARACTERISTICS
COMMUNISM 101
• An ideology based on Karl Marx text, The Communist Manifesto.
• Communism = community versus Capitalism = individualism.
• Inversion of the social pyramid. (the power for the commoners).
• The profits of labor (production) would be distributed fairly by the state. (Everybody is going to have the basics, but the same basics).
• Opposing the exploitation system brought by capitalism, where the profit is only for the bourgeois factory owners.
WHO IS WHO IN THE COMMUNISM?