The Russian revolution is the fundamental political and social upheaval that erupted in the Russian empire in 1917. ... In more broad terms it will be argued that the Revolutions in Russia was greatly needed for the establishment growth of their country. ... The second Revolution was needed for Russia to establish economic growth. ... Also Russia has undergone a political, economic, and social revolution. ... If the two revolutions were not needed how would Russia be today?...

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The Russian revolution progressed in much the same way, and its causes are rooted deep in Russian history. ... The Seven Years War economically drained the country and her losses were considerable in human and territorial terms. ... As with France, the Russian revolution began as a protest against tyranny. ... In Russia, many experienced revolutionaries set about spreading their message to the people. ... Therefore, the statement presented is accurate to both the French and Russian revolutions. ...

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A revolution in its simplest terms is a series of forceful fights or events that lead to a new way of living or governing. ... The Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment "encouraged scholars... to apply new... thinking to mechanical and technological challenges" (page 29) which was they way the English people thought during the Industrial Revolution. ... People needed jobs so they went to the cities to get jobs in the factories that had recently opened in the start of the Industrial Revolution. ... Communism rained over the world in countries such as Russia which at the time was the...

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The Russian Revolution of October 1917 can be seen as the first great surge of the future USSR. ... " Some historians stress that NEP was a step backwards in terms of development, Richard Pipes for example argues that Lenin's introduction of NEP could be described as a declaration of defeat, suggesting that "Lenin repeatedly had to defend the NEP and insist that the revolution was on course. Deep in his heart, however, he was haunted by a sense of failure"[6] Pipes argues that NEP was a step backwards from true communism, pushing Russia further away in terms of its develop...

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The revolutions of 1989 marked the death knell of communism in Europe. ... The rhetoric of the early Communist Party, immediately after the Russian Revolution of 1917 was effective in the extreme. With the Tsarist autocracy, and the highly ineffective provisional government of Kerensky in the recent memory of the people of Russia, Lenin found a receptive audience for his theories. ... It underwent an inflation of terms, as the promises and theories of each leader were in turn proven to be false. ... The eventual revolution can, in the most extreme terms be seen as the final loss of patience wi...

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The Russian Revolution of 1917- the Russian civil war, is commonly traced with the ideological warfare of the people stemmed from the influence of Marxism-Leninism. ... Among others, the background factors to the outbreak of the Russian revolution were peasant poverty, low wage of industrial workers that forced them to extreme hardship, an intelligentsia bent on reform. ... There is a point to ponder that there were massacres and bloodsheds before and during the revolution, but there were no such thing as ethnic element which can be held responsible for those st...

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Another interpretation is that it was an emergency measure to deal with the economic crisis caused by war, revolution and civil war (Malle 1985). ... The agricultural production in Russia declined since the outset of the First World War, and those who had food, hoarded it. ... This was evident in Stone Age groups when people had no concept of private property and there were no social classes. ... Given Lenin's passionate desire for revolution and to implement socialism it may be argued that at the time Lenin and other Bolsheviks believed that they were establishing socialism. ... Pipes ar...

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In the middle nineteenth century, industrialization was coming of age, capitalist owners were free to hire labor on their own terms. ... The document is divided into four sections with prefaces for several editions that ranged from Germany, Russia and England. ... In the hands of the proletariat, all capital would be utilized for the good of the people. ... Marxism had its main impact in Europe's slower developing countries, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Poland, and Russia. ... Many feel that Marx had got it wrong by predicting eminent revolution, but revolution did break out within days o...

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Socialism will not be a utopia simply created in people's minds. ... These people funded large amounts of research into economic and societal conditions in the country. ... This practical and common sense approach to socialism attracted many of the time's brightest people, including H.G. ... In terms of form and function, the Society has also changed slightly. ... The leaders of the Russian Revolution of 1917 were disinterested in anarchism and brushed aside most of its ideas. ...

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McNeill, Herbert Feis, and Thomas Bailey blamed the start of the Cold War on the USSR's resolution to pursue a path of expanding the ideas of communism and a essentially wanting a socialist revolution come alive throughout Eastern Europe and eventually the world. ... His conclusion was that "the main element of any United States policy toward the Soviet Union must be that of a long-term patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies. ... Given the innate hostility of the Soviet Union and settled upon a policy of "containing "Russian expansionism." ... The US Gov...

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Russia is in temporary decline. ... In just over two decades from its inception, the foreign policy of the Peoples Republic of China swung from formal alliance with the Soviet Union against the US, to de facto alliance with the US against the Soviet Union . ... The foreign policy objectives of a communist China however are not purely national in spirit, because Mao firmly believed in the ideological superiority of communism and claimed for China the role of leadership in the drive to world revolution. ... Mao and his followers set out to build a society that was to be organised for the benefit...

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The Bolshevik revolution in Russia in 1917 and the Rice Riots of 1918 energized radical thought, and there were movements calling for universal male suffrage1, the social, economic and political liberation of women, and the end of the existing social order entirely. Why then, by the end of the decade, had the tide of democratic process receded, and how had Japan's conservative and authoritarian elements reined back power from the hands of the people? This essay will attempt to answer these questions by looking at the respective movements trying to attain democratic rule, and on the oppo...

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