what was the bolshevik revolution ?
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The bolsheviks over threw the tsar of russia in 1917 they shot him and his family and declared russia a communist state prior to communism it was an imperialist state the revolution was started by men named lenin and trotsky the tsars name was nicholas (thats a very brief overview)
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here are two:\nhttp://theamericanrevolution.org/ipeople.asp\nhttp://www.nps.gov/revwar/about_the_revolution/revolutionary_people.html
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Russia succumbed to the idiocy of socialism.\n\nIt only cost millions of lives for them to realize it was a mistake.
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Even before World War I, citizens of the Russian Empire were beginning to grow uneasy with the direction the Empire was going. This is particularly true for the peasants and the most notably, the intellectuals, who felt they were being oppressed.\nDuring World War I,  the Russian Empire suffered many serious military defeats. These misfortunes along with the downward moving economy help spur riots through the country, especially in major cities. \nIn 1917 the Bolsheviks (under the command of Lenin) led a revolution against Czar Nikolai II and seized power in St. Petersburg and Moscow. Later Czar Nikolai II and most of his family were executed. Afterwards they changed their name to the Communist Party. However they weren’t in power yet. Shortly thereafter a civil war ensued between the Bolsheviks and supporters of the monarchy. The Bolsheviks won and this lead to the forming of the Soviet Union in 1922. \n\n\n(So, I believe that is exactly 150 words.)\n\nOh F-U-C-K YOU  CHINA?????? I just spent 30 minutes writing this! (Partly my fault that I needed so long, I thought it was supposed to be 250 words, so I went into WW II as well. LOL)\n\nI'd better get best answer anyway.
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hi there i hope this helps the meiji restoration was a revolution. \nread through i might have an essay on it some where as i studied japanese archaeology and history last year. if u want to email me and i will dig it out and send it to you. \nterry\n\nThe Meiji Revolution was the catalyst towards industrialization in Japan that led to the rise of the island nation as a military power by 1905, under the slogan of "National Wealth and Military Strength" (fukoku kyohei, 富国強兵).\n\nThe Meiji oligarchy that formed the government under the rule of the Emperor first introduced measures to consolidate their power against the remnants of the Edo period government, the shogunate, daimyo and the samurai class. In 1868, the Emperor took all land from the Tokugawa and put it under his own control. In 1869, the daimyos of the Toza han, Hizen han, Satsuma han and Choshu han domains, who were pushing most fiercely against the shogunate, were persuaded to return their domains to the Emperor. Other damiyos were subsequently persuaded to do so. Finally, in 1871, the daimyos, past and present, were summoned before the Emperor, where it was declared that all domains were now to be returned to the Emperor. The roughly 300 domains (han) were turned into prefectures, each under the control of a state-appointed governor. Until 1888, several prefectures were merged in several steps to reduce their number to 75. The daimiyo were promised 1/10 of their fiefs income as private income. Furthermore, their debts and payments of samurai stipends were to be taken over by the state.\n\nThe oligarchs also endeavoured to abolish the four divisions of society.\n\nThroughout Japan at the time, the samurai numbered 1.9 million, (which, for comparison, was more than 10 times the size of the French privileged class before the 1789 French Revolution). With each samurai being paid fixed stipends, their upkeep presented a tremendous financial burden, which may have prompted the oligarchs to action. Whatever their true intentions, the oligarchs embarked on another slow and deliberate process to abolish the samurai class. First, in 1873, it was announced that the samurai stipends were to be taxed on a rolling basis. Later, in 1874, the samurai were given the option to convert their stipends into government bonds. Finally, in 1876, this commutation was made compulsory.\n\nTo reform the military, the government instituted nation-wide conscription in 1873, mandating that every male serve in the armed forces for 3 years upon turning twenty-one. One of the primary differences between the samurai and peasant class was the right to bear arms; this ancient privilege was suddenly extended to every male in the nation.\n\nNot surprisingly, this led to a series of riots from disgruntled samurai. One of the major riots was the one led by Saigo Takamori, the Satsuma rebellion, which eventually turned into a civil war. This rebellion was however put down swiftly by the newly formed imperial army, trained in Western tactics and weapons, even though the core of the new army was the Tokyo Police force, which was formed in great parts of former samurai. This sent a strong message to the dissenting samurai that their time was indeed up. Subsequent to this, there were fewer samurai uprisings, although the samurai spirit lived on, and this was to have an important effect during the wars Japan participated in at the turn of the 20th century.\n\nHowever, it is equally true that the majority of samurai were content despite having their status abolished. Many found employment in the government bureaucracy, which resembled an elite class in its own right. The samurai, being better educated than most of the population, became teachers, government officials or military officers. While the formal title of samurai was abolished, perhaps the elitist spirit which characterised the samurai class lived on even beyond the 1870s.\n\nThe oligarchs also embarked on a series of land reforms. In
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rusian revolution changes\n\nhttp://www.museum.ru/mirror/vlmp/l_VLMPe.asp\n\n:> peace
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it's A Communism. I am not really sure on this one so please give me feed back.
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Write a note! you must be joking??\nThe Russian revolution brought about a massive change in the way the country was run politically, the Royals were 'Done way with' (quite rightly)!and the people took over, this caused a lot of dissent between various groups of 'People Leaders' these little problems were  'democratically' resolved by the leaders bumping each other off, they then had a USSR! A United  Soviet Socialist Republic! Not Communist, socialist!\nMany Socialist believe Communism will really arrive when all Socialist countries unite under one banner and all adhere to the same form of Socialism, it's not all over yet by a long chalk!\nThat's your note! \nIf you would like to offer me a commission to write a book on the subject I'm open to offers(business is a bit slack at the moment!
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Well... one of the key features of Marxist Commnism (referring to German writer Karl Marx who published Communist Manifesto in 1848 to rally Socialists under a Communist banner), social classes were eliminated.  This happened to a lower degree under Lenin and Stalin in 20th cent. USSR
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I think there is a lot of historical revisionism going on here...well thats assuming that you have any actual knowledge of what you are talking about. Certainly your knowledge of British history is lamentable. Are you suggesting that the American Revolution has been the only 'pure' revolution in world history? I don't understand the reference to communism. The doctrine of Communism was a 19th century one, which really didn't get into full swing until the Russian Revolution of 1917. What about the Glorious Revolution of of 1688 when Britain kicked out King James II and the barons and nobles installed William of Orange and his wife Mary to the British throne? No one died, there were  no battles (at the time at least) and there was a smooth transition of power. Not bad for a country that "always gave in to the king". (oh and as an aside, we had beheaded another King earlier in the same century... but perhaps we were too busy "giving in" to him to notice.) History is never as clear cut as you may want it to be. There was a large Colonial army that fought on the British side against the Revolutionaries that tends to be forgotten about, as it is always the victors that write the history books. It is interesting that many black americans fought in the Colonial army as they saw the British as a better bet for their eventual freedom than Washington et al. Mmmm. I wonder if they saw their so called masters as enlightened revolutionaries, or brutal slave owners who maintained their grip over these poor people by terrorising them with chains, whips and torture. I think we all need to be very careful before holding ourselves up as paragons of virtue.
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History of the Soviet Union  \n    Human beings have always demanded leadership; without it, society invariably heads toward self-destruction. But mankind has evolved over time, from a primal form of tribal leadership, to monarchy and dictatorship and finally, is on its tortuous path to the possibility of complete democracy. From the end of the Renaissance, the people have gradually awaken to the knowledge of human rights and a hatred of dictatorship, thus leading to bloody striving for independence. Such was the case of Russia, a nation rocked by many revolutions; a nation which, in stretching its arms toward economic superiority and political freedom, has sacrificed tens of millions of its people. In proud Russia’s turbulent history, it is demonstrated over and over again that, while the people may be repressed and scared into obedient silence for a while, they will rise, in order to defend their basic rights as human beings.\n\n \nBOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION  \n    Russia, near the end of the nineteenth century, was an impoverished state, miles and miles behind the other nations of Europe. At the beginning of the reign in 1894, Tsar Nicholas II, made an attempt at building factories and railways in order to boost Russia’s economy. Despite such vast economic progress and industrialization, the peasantry was far from satisfied. For, just as in any country new to industrialization, the government temporarily forgot its priority, in the rush to catch up to other more technologically advanced countries: its people. Ridiculously low wages, child labor and deplorable working conditions were wide spread, as trade unions were still outlawed. As the bridge between the poor and the rich widened, revolutionary sentiments began to grow.\n    From the masses, two revolutionary groups arose, both stemmed from the followers of Karl Marx, the Mensheviks, those who wanted wider popular support before launching any revolutionary movements, and the Bolsheviks, disciples of a particular interpretation of Marxism, who wanted radical change immediately. On January 22, 1905, 200,000 workers and their families gathered in front of the Czar palace to demand better “better working conditions, more personal freedom, and an elected national assembly.” The czar’s generals ordered their soldiers to fire into the crowd, killing as many as 1000 citizens, whose efforts only achieved little in terms of political change.\n    To complicate matters even further, in 1914, Czar Nicholas II made the fateful decision to launch Russia into The Great War, World War I, dragging with him Russia’s 11 million peasants. Russia’s economy was still growing, not yet mature, no where near able to handle the economic crisis that the war brought. The Germans crushed the Russian’s poorly equipped troops and inexperienced generals, as well as the soldiers’ morale. The czar had pushed his unstable economy and his unwilling people into World War I; he would indeed feel the consequences of his actions.\n \nMARCH REVOLUTION  \n    In March of 1917, a group of women textile workers led a riot against shortages of bread and fuel. The Tsar’s soldiers were ordered, once again, to fire into the crowd, but were convinced by some of the women to join their cause. Enthusiastic shouts of “down with the war!” and “down with the autocracy!” were heard all over. The Russian populace, after three centuries of oppressive rule, suddenly erupted with the “fever of the masses”; their sheer number and determination forced Nicholas to abdicate his throne. He and his family were placed under house arrest and shot a year later by the ultimately victorious Bolsheviks.\n    A provisional government (temporary government) headed by Alexander Kerensky replaced the dead czar regime as the people dared to look forward to a more secure future. But the provincial government decided to continue Russia’s involvement in the war, worsening internal conditioning. Kerensky gradually lost th
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the spark of the revolt that was stirred in Timisoara on December 16, 1989 rapidly spread all over the country and in December 22 the dictatorship was overthrown owing to the sacrifice of over one thousand lives.\n\nThe Romanian Revolution of December 22, 1989--- \nThe victory of the revolution opened the way for a re-establishment of democracy, of the pluralist political system, for the return to a market economy and the re-integration of the country in the European economic, political and cultural space.\n\n=) that's what i know!
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if you read Russian, read here:\nhttp://history.tuad.nsk.ru/Author/Russ/T/TimchenkoJaJu/golgofa/razd1-1.html\n\nIn brief, he was a Tsarist general who took the bolsheviks' side after the revolution (the first general to do that). Played important role during the civil war, was briefly arrested in 1931, but was released the same year.\n\nIn English you might try to search Bonch-Bruevitch or something similar
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This is beyond the scope of a simple answer, but there were two revolutions, the first in February of 1917 in which tsar Nicholas was overthrown and a Provisional government set up under Kerensky, and a second revolution in October, (or November, depending on which calendar you use) when the Bolsheviks overthrew the provisional goverment and established the Soviet state.  Following this was the civil war in which the forces of the Red and White armies fought for control.  The Bolsheviks were holding Nicolas and his family and entourage in a house requisitioned from an engineer, Nicholas Ipatev, in Ekaterinburg, and in July, 1918 when White forces threatened to take the town, the Imperial family was ushered to the basement and shot, their bodies carried in a truck into a forest and dumped first into a mine shaft and then reburied in a shallow grave.\n\nThere are quite a number of books on this subject, and the matter is far too complex and detailed to permit any satisfactory discussion here.
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This has a nice summary\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_revolution
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You will have to research Marxist history, Do not focus ont the revolts of 1848 in Europe, Focus on The Paris Commune of 1872, The Revolt of 1905 in Russia, and The Bolshevik revolt. I believe it originated in the Paris Commune. The other two revolts will tie in Vladimir Illich Ulaynov.(Lenin)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_revolution\n\nchoose whatever you want here and follow the links. you will get the information you need.\nI dont know which russian revolution you want information on..