Russian Revolutions

By the time of Russian Revolution (October Revolution) the last Russian Czar Nicholas II had already abdicated the crown. From the time he had abandoned his place until October Revolution Russia had been ruled by the Provisional Government. Nicholas II abdicated the crown during February Revolution.

The chief political and economic architect of the 1917 Russian Revolution that created the Soviet Union was Joseph Stalin

The Bolsheviks overthrew the provisional government which had been put in place after the tsar abdicated the throne. The Bolsheviks did not overthrow the czar, but they did murder him.
In the October Revolution (November on the Gregorian calendar), the Bolshevik party overthrew the Provisional Government in Petrograd. The moderate socialists were not respected by the radical Bolsheviks.

Vladimir Lenin led the rebel Bolshevik Party in the October Revolution of 1917 in Russia. There was no such leader in the February Revolution. That was a spontaneous unorganized mass demonstration that convinced the Tsar that he had to abdicate the throne.

While I am not a Communist, the historical significance of the Russian Revolution is beyond any doubt. While democratic countries like Britain and America granted civil liberties, the workers' condition was pathetic-long working hours and low wages. Earlier, the elitist government supported the capitalists in full but later to counter the Communist challenge, took to mass welfare schemes. The Russian Revolution under Lenin against the Czarist autocracy highlighted the importance of socioeconomic equality, and therefore opposed imperialism also. Moreover, the Russian Revolution was responsible for the spread of laudible but not plausible Communist ideas. Finally, the Russian Revolution gave birth to the Soviet Union, a superpower before its collapse in 1991.

If you are referring to the Mexican Revolution from 1910 to 1917, it was an internal affair of Mexico. However, some US personnel were killed by a rebel leader, which caused the USA to get involved in the Revolution as well. If you are talking about the Mexican "War of Independence", than the parties involved were the Spain and Mexico.

The "Provisional Government" replaced Tsarist rule after the February 1917 Russian Revolution. This governmental body claimed it had the only legitimate authority in Russia once the Tsar abdicated, because many of its members had been members of the Duma, the Russian form of Parliament under the Tsar. The Provisional Government proved to be as useless and unpopular as the Tsar it had replaced and was itself removed by Lenin and his Bolsheviks several months later in the October Revolution of 1917. The Bolsheviks were not much better at governing, but they were better at maintaining power by the use of force and terror.

Technically speaking, no one ever set up a communist state as Karl Marx defined communism. Vladimir Lenin, after the October Russian Revolution, set up a socialist state in Russia, expecting that at some time in the future it would become a true communist state. It was referred to as a communist state because he had the name of the Bolshevik Party changed to the Communist Party in 1918.

the reds- the Bolsheviks the whites- a broad term applied to any anti Bolshevik group. The whites were made up of * Mensheviks * Socialist Revolutionaries * Supporters of the Tsar * Landlords and capitalists who had lost money due to the revolution * the Czech legion (these were paid soldiers) the whites were also supported by USA, Japan, France and Britain, who wanted to crush Communism as they were worrried about it spreading to their countries. Hope that helps!

The Provisional Government (PG) which was set up after the February Revolution and abdication of Tsar Nicholas II, did not satisfy the revolutionary desires of the people of Russia which caused the revolution. The PG was comprised of people from the Duma, aristocrats and intellectuals army of whom had interest they wanted to protect now that they had gotten rid of the Tsar.

The PG continued the war against Germany. It failed to improve the availability of food. It failed to redistribute land from wealthy owners to peasants. In short nothing had changed for the common person, therefore it had lost its support.

Meanwhile the Bolsheviks under Lenin had been agitating against the PG itself now. The Bolsheviks had many supporters in the army and they turned they army against the PG just as they had done against the Tsar. The PG, like the Tsar before it, lost the military support it needed to fight the rebellion.

The PG was dependent upon the local councils of workers and soldiers called soviets to maintain its power, but these were gradually taken over by the Bolsheviks so the PG lost its local political support.

All in all though, the October Revolution took place because Vladimir Lenin and his Bolsheviks wanted a socialist (not communist) state and the PG still had capitalist roots. Lenin was not content to wait for a true Marxist uprising of the proletariat so he acted for it by staging the military coup that they called the October Revolution.

i dont no........but 1921 1-17 Mar The old Bolshevik stronghold of Kronstadt rises demanding free election to the Soviets but is suppressed.

1921 May Tambov insurrection suppressed

1924 Lenin dies. Trotsky is defeated by a triumvirate of Stalin, Kamenev and Zinoviev. Though Stalin stays in the background it is he who is the real power as the other two will shortly discover.

The Russian nobility was a group thatarose in the 14th century and essentially governedRussia until the October Revolution of 1917. As in other countries, nobility was a status, a social category, but not a title.

The aristocracy lost their aristocratic status and became an even lower class of person than the workers, soldiers and peasants were under them. All noble titles were abolished and all property owned by them was taken away from them. They were practically turned into peasants overnight.

After the October Revolution, Russia became the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic. In December 1922, it joined with Ukraine, Belorussia and the Transcaucasus Federation (Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan) to form the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

The Russian revolution in 1905 caused terrorism, worker strikes, and mutinies. After the successful revolution the Russian Empire limited the powers that Monarchs had and established the Russian Constitution of 1906.

The Russian Constitution of 1906 did not curtail the powers of the monarchy. In fact it expressly provided that Russia was committed to the autocratic rule of the Tsars, that the Tsar was the Supreme Emperor and that no laws could be made unless he approved of them. In this manner, the Constitution became the law of the land for everyone to obey but the Tsar himself.

After the 1905 Russian Revolution happened, the Tsar permitted a democratically elected parliamentary body called the Duma to be created. This never became a true legislative body making laws that even the Tsar had to obey (unless he wished to). Shortly after the 1905 Revolution, all the reforms became so much window dressing and life in Russia was soon back to its former autocratic self.

There were three "Russian Revolutions." The one in 1905 and the two in 1917, referred to as the February Revolution and the October Revolution. The October Revolution is the one most commonly thought of as the "Russian Revolution, since it was the last of the three and entrenched the Communists in power until 1991 when the Soviet Union broke up.

After the February Revolution, Tsar Nicholas II abdicated the throne ending over 300 years of Romanov dynasty rule. A Provisional Government was then formed to carry on government and military functions in the place of the Tsar until the Constituent Assembly could be elected to meet, enact a true constitution and create a new democratic government. Not much changed for the people of Russia since the Provisional Government was composed of people who had more interest in retaining a conservative rather than a revolutionary government.

After the October Revolution (also called the Bolshevik or Communist Revolution), the Provisional Government was overthrown and Vladimir Lenin and his Bolshevik supporters seized control of the government. Although Lenin and the Bolsheviks had promised more freedoms for all, they did not deliver on their promises (other than to end World War I). In order to stay in power, Lenin and the Bolsheviks were more repressive of dissent than the Tsarist regime had been.

The next thing that happened after this Russian Revolution was the Russian Civil War. Although virtually all Russians wanted a revolution to get rid of the Tsar, very few wanted the Bolsheviks to take over, especially after they showed how ruthless they could be in holding onto power for themselves even though they were a minority political party. The Russian Civil War was an attempt by forces opposing the Bolshevik seizure of power to the exclusion of other socialist revolutionary parties to then overthrow the Bolsheviks.

It was during the Civil War, in July 1918, that the Bolsheviks finally murdered former Tsar Nicholas II and his family.

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.

Grand Duke Michael's wife and son were able to escape Russia with the help of the Danish government, whose royal family were part of Michael's extended family. Natasha, his wife, died in poverty in Paris in 1952. Their son, George, Count Brassov, died close to his 21st birthday after completing his university degree. He was in an auto accident.

The Grand Duke was arrested several times but the Bolsheviks removed him from the capital in the spring of 1918, sending him to Perm along with his secretary and servants. The Cheka murdered him outside of Perm after kidnapping him from his rooms. His body has never been found.

The men who killed him proudly wore the personal effects, including one who wore the grand duke's watch. Lenin received them and was proud of their having murdered the grand duke

He generally represents the Czars of Russia, but mainly is representing Nicholas Csar (Tzar) II and the last of the old government. He was the cruel owner of the animals.

It was 1917 when Lenin and the Bolsheviks in a nearly bloodless coup took over the Provisional Government that had been in place since the February 1917 revolution. The Provisional Government was dissolved and Lenin assumed power in Russia. It wasn't until 1920 that his hold on Russia was solidified, because the Russian Civil War soon broke out and lasted until 1920.

The Civil War wiped out all opposition to the Bolshevik rule that was established in the October Revolution. Right after the revolution, the Bolshevik's grip on power was still shaky with even other Marxist organizations opposed to them. By winning the Civil War the Bolsheviks eliminated both political and military opposition to what they were doing and firmly entrenched them in power.

The Czar was overthrown by the communist. He was taken prisoner along with his wife and their 6 children. They were taken to a site in the woods kept in a basement where they were shot. Later, their bodies are buried in a mass grave in the woods. It wasn't until the last 10 or 15 years that their graves were found.

After Vladimir Illyich Lenin's death, both of his successors Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin competed against each other. Unfortunately for Trotsky, Stalin had used propaganda and deceit to force Trotsky into exile (to Mexico, where he is eventually assassinated). Stalin was a Soviet premier until 1953.

The Russian Revolution led to a government that led with an iron fist and allowed no outside influences or negative criticisms of the ruling party. Following the revolution, the Whites and the Reds fought a bloody and merciless battle for control of the government. Lenin's Red Soviets defeated the White Russians and the Soviet Union was created. The peasants were starving and the country was in ruins. Economically, the country was completely destablilized. Millions of people were murdered under Lenin, Stalin, and future Soviet leaders. People were murdered or sent to Siberian gulags for real and very often imagined crimes against the state. In WWII, Stalin killed more of his own people than any who died in combat. Undesirables, such as gays, Jews, gypsies, etc, were murdered without compunction. The proletariat saw government subsidized items, that while relatively inexpensive, were of extremely poor quality.

There were three revolutions in Russia in the early 1900s. The first in 1905 achieved a government called the duma and more civil rights including voting rights for a wider group of the population. The bolsheviks were only just splitting off from a previous socialist party called the social democrats at this point. The January 1917 revolution ended the tsarist ideology by forcing tsar Nicholas II to give up the throne, bolsheviks were somewhat involved, encouraging army mutiny and blocking railways etc. But they didnt come to power until October 1917 where they stormed the winter palace in petrograd and took over government from the provisional government (democrats who had taken over Russia after the January revolution). All in all the October revolutionary was relatively small scale, but bolshevik propaganda played it up and they went on to control Russia until 1989