What were the effects of the Russian revolutions February Revolution 1917 and the October Revolution 1917 on the Russian Government?

Answer 1

It allowed the Bolshevik socialists to gain power and eventually establish the U.S.S.R. (Soviet Union).

Answer 2

When the tsar was thrown kicked out of power there was a power vacuum and a temporary governing body was set up called the provisional government which was unelected and consisted of many members of the Duma. When Lenin arrived back from exile he was greeted by a crowd in the Finland Station and outline his so called April Theses this called for a much more radical approach saying that the war should end at once an end to co-operation with he provisional government all power to the soviet and a land reformation should take place to give land to the peasantry. His Theses attracted the workers and peasantry but was booed and heckled by the Mensheviks and doubted by his own party the Bolsheviks. Yet through his charisma it became Bolshevisk party policy and as a result the little well known Bolshevik party became a bigger force as numbers swelled from 10,000 to 300,000 in months. Lenin also used slogans such as bread peace and land to appeal to the masses and with the help of trotsky and with alot of luck tied in with the failings of Kerensky leader of the provisional government and kerenskys decision to arm the Bolsheviks in the fear kornilov a dissident general would attack petrograd in the end bring about the Bolshevik seizure of power

Anarchist Syndicalist version!

The strains of involvement in a world war brought the tzarist Government to its knees. It couldn't stand the pressures of governing such an enormous country and running a major war!

The Country dissolved both socially and economically, the social establishment collapsed. The politicians described above, were in a time warp and the working classes had to manage for themselves to build up an alternative system to sustain an equitable life style.

They succeeded!

For social life they built up a system of Committees known in Russia as Soviets, with delegates from all the districts involved or even interested!

In their working life they built up, very slowly and painfully, an alternative industrial set up of Collectivisation and Workers Control.

However, the rest of the Country, or that part stemming from the Old Regime, the Middle classes opposed and tried to wreck the infant movements. When the volatile political parties's saw that power was actually held by the working class through these new bodies and that there was a life away from politics, they moved to take power away from them. In many cases they made use of the leadership from the remnants of the Old regime.

The Bolsheviks, soon got their members controlling the Soviets, not everywhere and all at once, but they knew what they wanted and Lenin at least new how to get it!

For Workers Control? Things were different, the Bolheviks, were midlle class intellectuals who imagined they new .'it all.'

Having had some slight success with their schemes The Worker Control Movement called a Conference to develop their skills and success' but the Bolshis had their followers infiltrated in to the Councils of Action and Workers committees, the result was a take over by the Bolshevils of the means of production.

Though no one knew it then, the February Revolution wast the successful one. , the October Revolution was the first stage of the Counter Revolution and the success at

the Industrial Conference of the Bolshevik Governments plans meant the Revolution was lost!

sorry last few sentances a bit scrunched up

good luck.

Answer 3

The combined effects of the two revolutions overthrew the Russian version of the royal family, the Romanovs, and put Lenin and the Bolsheviks in charge of the country.