Russian Revolution

The Russian Revolution is one of the most influential and important moments in history. It took place in the year 1917 and in the midst of final stages World War 1. The Russian revolution happened in two stages, and the two stages are known by the world as the February revolution and the October revolution. The outcome from the radical revolution was that Russia was removed from fighting in the war and brought about the end of the Russian empire and the reign of the Tsar, Nicholas Romanov, and brought the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, which was led by Lenin, to power in the government. Russia's traditional monarchy was transformed into the world's first communist state. I'm here today to share my view that the Russian revolution did not reach its desired effect. It however caused Russia's already horrible social conditions to dramatically worsen and for the oppression of the Russian people to continue to escalate.

For an entire revolution of a country's government to take place there has to be causes and reasons why people of that country want change to take place. Life under the Tsar for the Russian's was disappointing and unsatisfying. Russia was on the brink chaos of with its economic poverty and poor working conditions. With over 125 million people living in Russia at the time it would be impossible for the Tsar to govern and to distribute equality to that many people all over Russia. There were many nationalities, cultures and languages that the Tsar was expected to govern fairly, however the Russian's took his priority and the other cultures and nationalities had to make do with what little they did receive from the Tsar. Secret police were censoring the streets of St. Petersburg, Russia had an out-of-date farming economy and the shortage of food was getting to an out of control point.

The middle class of society pushed for the government to change to democracy so that they could have their say as to how to run the country, instead they lived with oppression and censorship. Most of the population were peasants who worked in factories and there was worker poverty and poor living conditions. Resentment and political and social unrest was beginning to mount towards the Tsar. It was only a matter of time and only so many more poor decisions from the Tsar as to how to address the issue of the poverty and the poor working conditions the Russian people could take before the turmoil would overload and the Russian's would be oppressed enough to start a revolution.

In many ways the conditions in Russia worsened after the revolution. The people of Russia revolted in hopes to better their living conditions, but instead in the light of Lenin's 'war communism' policy the farmers were forced to sell the crops they grew to the government. This left the farmer's and their families with barely enough to survive. Soon enough the incentive to