What was life like after the Russian Revolution?

Answer 1

Life in Russia after the revolution can not have been easy for the population. World War I was still raging. There was a demoralized army and many desertions. Food was in short supply due to a labor shortage and there were many strikes. Politically, it was easy for the people to buy into Lenin's promises of peace and bread.

Answer 2

It wasnt a communal state rather a socialist country.

Soviet Union(russia in early years)was a superpower and competited against the United States of America in many ways ,they even had the cold war ,they had the space race russia was the first to send man into the space and USA was the first to send a man on the moon.

Answer 3

The conditions in Russia after the revolution were no better than conditions before.

Shortages of food and manufactured goods actually increased as production decreased. Peasant farmers were forced to sell their crops to the government under Lenin's "war communism" policy leaving them with barely enough to survive. Peasants soon lost incentive to grow more crops or hoarded what they did grow. Peasants who did this and were found out were exiled, imprisoned or executed.

Industrial output actually fell below the levels they had been at under the Tsar. Lenin recognized this and fearing that the Russian people would revolt against him and the Bolsheviks, instituted the New Economic Policy. It did little to help.

There was absolutely no political freedom since Lenin abolished all political parties other than the Bolshevik, later Communist, Party. Anyone voicing opposition or criticism of the way the Bolsheviks/Communists were running things was branded a counterrevolutionary and also exiled, jailed or executed.

All in all, the plight of the peasants and laborers got worse.

Answer 4

The conditions were really terrible