Friday, January 9, 2009

The Russian Revolution

the Russian Revolution had a chain of events leading up to it, it started in 1917. the Russian Revolution revolved around two main events, which are known to be the February and OctoberRevolution. the February Revolution removed Tsar Nicholas II from power, developed spontaneously out of a series of increasingly violent. this was very harmful and unsafe toward the citizens there.The October Revolution also known as the Bolshevik Revolution overturned the interim provisional government and established the Soviet Union. Due of the small amount of people who organized it, it was a very deliberate event. After October, the Bolsheviks realized that they could not maintain power in an election-based system. They would have to share power with other parties and compromising their principles. As a result they decided to, formally abandoned the democratic process in January 1918.

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