The 8 Consequences of the Main Russian Revolution

The Consequences of the Russian Revolution Affected the course of the First World War, the economic structure of Russia and the democratic and industrial organization of the great nations of the world.

This took place in two moments, the first in February 1917, when the imperial government was overthrown, and the second in October of the same year, when the political party of the Bolshevik took power.

Consequences Attacking the Czar's army during the early days of the March-

By 1917, the link between Tsar Nicholas II and the Russian people had been broken. Government corruption and inefficiency were rampant.

The Tsar's reactionary policies, including the occasional dissolution of the Russian Parliament (Duma) which in 1905 had brought about a revolution, had been responsible for encouraging Russian discontent. In this way, ethnic minorities within the Russian Empire began to oppose the domination of the government.

However, it was the inefficiency of the government on issues related to the First World War which finally represented a problem for the old Russian regime.

The poorly equipped and commanded Russian army suffered catastrophic losses one campaign after another against the German army.

The war made the revolution inevitable and showed that Russia was not a military contender fit for the nations of central and eastern Europe. This affected its economy radically, among other consequences (Britannica, 2017).

Economic and political social consequences of the Russian Revolution

1 - A Coup to Capitalism

The Russian Revolution was presented as a blow to the capitalist model prevailing in the world. It invited the working class from around the world to unite to fight the capitalist class.

This is how a war was declared between totalitarianism and democratic socialism, that is, between capitalism and the Marxism .

In this way, bourgeois governments around the world were forced by the increasing pressure imposed by the councils of workers who sought the restructuring of institutions.

2 - End of the Tsarist Regime

The Russian Revolution overthrew the tsarist regime, so that a democratic republic was established. The revolution challenged the values ​​of Western culture, the fundamental principles of industrial culture and the capitalist model, the structure of government systems, diplomatic methods, and the Western values ​​of democracy.

The fall of the tsarist empire was evident when the Russian army refused to shoot demonstrators and opponents of the government.

In this way, the Czar Nicholas II Had to declare Russia as a liberal and democratic nation, led by an interim government in favor of the people. On the other hand, Czar Nicholas II was executed along with his wife and their five children.

3 - Soviet Economy

The Soviet economic model was guided by three well-defined socialist principles: 1. The improvement of the materials and moral conditions of the proletariat. 2. Social welfare as a general good. 3. The assurance of social equality in terms of the rights and duties of the people. (Trenton, 2015)

In this way, the land was distributed among the farmers and the factories passed into the hands of the workers.

This is how Russia's economy fails, industrial production declines, trade stops and skilled workers leave the country.

4 - Global Impact

Thanks to the Russian revolution, new social and economic content was given to nationalist revolutions in the colonial world. On the other hand, politically, appeared the cult to the"common man"as a result of the establishment of a Soviet democracy.

In economic terms, the idea of ​​having an economic plan was implanted and the concept of central address of the national economy was implemented in many nations. All this, thanks to the Soviet model (Nicholson, 2017).

5 - Division of the World in Two Political Blocks

The Russian revolution in time resulted in the birth of two completely dimetric power blocks.

One was the Communist bloc led by the Soviet Union, and the other was the anti-communist bloc, under the command of the United States.

6 - Bolshevik

The radical political party of the proletarian movement, led by Lenin, officially came to power during the revolution.

In this way they managed to carry out the first elections for the formation of a constituent assembly in Russia. All this with the aim of granting the party a constitution where its socialist principles could be defined.

The presence of the Bolshevik in Russia was indispensable to implement the social reforms that the Russian population greatly affected by the war called for.

This party would later become the Russian Communist Party, which would pass into Stalin's hands following the death of Vladimir Lenin (Company, 2010).

The Bolshevik led by Lenin fought against the power of the state in a civil war between 1918 and 1920, in which approximately 15 million people died of conflict and famine.

During this time, Lenin was responsible for atrocities carried by the Red Party, such as the Gulag, a network of camps for political prisoners and war that were brutally treated and murdered.

7 - Fall of the Empires

The Russian Revolution drove the fall of other empires in the nations of central Europe. In Germany the dynasties of the Austro-Hungarian Empire were overthrown, which brought about riots, mobilizations and protests of the proletariat.

In Munich the republic was proclaimed before that in Berlin and the government passed to the Soldiers, peasants and workers (INTEF, 2017).

Hungary was no stranger to these pressures and Bela Kun established the Soviet Republic two years after the revolution. The United States was also affected by the numerous strikes of the mining, railroad and metallurgical guilds of the time.

In Turin, Italy, the workers of various industries were combative and communist, taking the reins of the companies for which they worked.

8 - The War

By decision of the Bolshevik party, Russia withdraws from the war by signing the Brest-Litovsk treaty, in this way, Germany gains ground and achieves its military objectives, only weakened by the allies in the later course of the war.

Germany in its eagerness to eliminate Russia from the war, helped Lenin to move from Switzerland to Russia, through German territory, even financed the Bolshevik (Neudecker, 2014).

References

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  2. Company, M. L. (2010). Causes and Consequences of the Russian Revolution. California Content , 73.
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  6. Trenton, R. (2015). The Russian Revolution: The Fall of the Tsars and the Rise of Communism. New York: Britannica.


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