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Noor Abdulla

Rani Saliba

20th Century History

28 March 2021

The Russian Revolution

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Research Question: What are the causes and implications of the Russian revolution in a political,

social, and economic aspect?

“When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.” -Victor Hugo. Throughout history, revolutions
are an evident type of rebelliousness to go against a system or government. The Russian Revolution is
one of the most explosive and important events in modern history, leaving us with questions about its
causes, and later effects that answer those questions.

To begin with, Russia was an autocratic country ruled by a Tsar for a long period of time before the
Russian Revolution. Under the system of tsarism, Russia was no where near developed or industrialized.
The economic state of the lower class was bad, peasantry was becoming widespread. The social
situation was not good either, Feudalism is an important concept of social hierarchy in the Russian
community that has made the situation even worst. Situations did not get better with Russia joining
WW1, and Czar Nicholas leaving the Russian capital. (History.com Editors) (roberts).
The Revolution started in 1917, the Russian Revolution occurred as February Revolution and then the
Bolshevic Revolution. The February Revolution started with people clamoring to get bread between the
bad situations they lived in, protests started forming mainly from industrial workers. The army failed in
stopping the protests, and Czar Nicholas abdicated, a new provisional government was created, and the
Romanov power was ended. The provisional government was capitalist, the communist leader Vladimir
Lenin decided to go against the government, marking the creation of a soviet government that calls to be
run by the working class. (History.com Editors)
In conclusion, the Russian Revolution is a very impactful event because of the way it has impacted
Russia and the world. It paved a path for a new ideology, new economic policies, social changes in the
community, and most importantly new forms of conflict. It leads to WWII as USSR is one of the
participants in this war, the Soviet Union also brings Joseph Stalin, an important figure in WWII.
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Source 1:
History.com Editors. Russian Revolution. 9 Nov. 2009, www.history.com/topics/russia/russian-revolution#:~:text=the
%20Soviet%20Union.-,Impact%20of%20The%20Russian%20Revolution,States%20during%20the%20Cold%20War.
Origin Purpose Value Limitation
 This source is by Histo-  This source presents  Many of the informa-  The source is overall
ry.com, it is an online en- the causes, events, tion of this report is ex- classified as reliable and
cyclopedia. leaders, and effects of tracted from this cite, objective. Yet some lim-
 This article was uploaded the Russian revolution. because it covers the itations include:
on November, 9, 2009 The purpose is clear. topic in an inclusive  No author names.
and is updated on Febru-  The authors convey di- way. It is valuable for
ary 28, 2020. rect facts about the this research.
 The article is written by events, however,  The source is reliable
History.com editors. causes and effects are because it shares infor-
determined with analy- mation with most other
sis that is based on oc- websites.
currences.  This source is updated,
 The information is which means it has in-
mainly facts, and it is formation that is up to
an objective cite. There date.
is no clear opinion or
propaganda.

Source 2:

Roberts, Michael. “The Russian Revolution: Some Economic Notes.” Michael Roberts Blog, 8 Nov. 2017,
thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2017/11/08/the-russian-revolution-some-economic-notes/.

Origin Purpose Value Limitation

 Posted on nextrecession.-
com website.
 Written by Michael
Robert.
 Posted on November 8,
2017.
 This article focuses on  Since the Russian rev-  This cite is objective,
the economic aspect of olution is directly re- however some
the Russian Revolution, lated to economic situ- information is not very
showing the economic ations, this article precise. Limitations
effects in detail. The helped in forming include:
purpose is clear. causalities and deduc-  The cite was never
 This article shows a fac- ing effects. updated or edited.
tual perspective to the  This information has  The historical details are
issue, explaining the not been reviewed. not as strong as the
fluctuations and patterns  Since the article is economic side of this
with events happening more study based, it article.
in Russia. his hard to determine
 While the author con- the precision of all in-
veys his perspective, it formation from other
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is objective because it sources.

contains more of numer-
ical evidence and graphs
than personal perspec-
tives.

Works Cited
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History.com Editors. Russian Revolution. 9 Nov. 2009, www.history.com/topics/russia/russian-

revolution#:~:text=the%20Soviet%20Union.-,Impact%20of%20The%20Russian

%20Revolution,States%20during%20the%20Cold%20War.

Roberts, Michael. “The Russian Revolution: Some Economic Notes.” Michael Roberts Blog, 8 Nov.

2017, thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2017/11/08/the-russian-revolution-some-economic-notes/.