Wednesday, January 13, 2010

The Russian Revolution

The Russian Revolution is many different revolutions that occured in Russiain the year of 1917 and so on. This is what made the Soviet Union. In the first Revolutin the Czar ( Nicholas 2 ) was deposed and replaced by a provisional governement in March of 1917. In October of that same year the Provisional government got over runned by the Bolshevik a Communist party. The goal of this war was to get "Peace, Land, and Bread". People wanted Peace so no more fighting, Land to grow crops because there crop fields were messed up and Bread to eat because there were many food shortages the year before. Communism is a country that everything is equal. Everybody gets the same money and the government runs everything going on. The leader of the Bolshevik party was Vladimir lenin he was very influenced by karl Marx's teachings. With the signing of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk a big war came forth with the Red Army ( Bolshevik ) and the White Army ( Aniti- Bolshevik ) which at the end the Bolshevik being victorious on top of the white army. But Lenin died 1924 and was replaced by a man of evil a man by the name of Joseph Stalin.

Stalin ruled Russia till he died in 1954, but people feared him. Stalin made factories and forced peasants to work in them. Stalin took full dictatorship. Another thing that Stalin wanted to do was make Russia a full Totalitarin place.

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