The Russian Revolution

The Russian Revolution was a series of revolutions in Russia during 1917. The Russians wanted a revolution because their czar Nicholas II was preventing any change and the people revolted which led to him abdicating his throne. Then in Russia a temporary government was created due to the czar leaving his throne. Russia still continued to fight in WWI and refused to leave the war. The new temporary government created was a democratic government. But the peasants revolted against the landowners and factory owners. In the revolution there was a clash between the democratic government and the Bolshevik party. This eventually led to a civil war in which the Bolshevik party defeated the democratic government. Then the Bolshevik party then signed a treaty with Germany and left the WWI. The Bolshevik party was led by Vladimir Lenin. The Bolsheviks used Karl Marx's idea of communism and formed their own government. This led to Russia becoming the first communist country. The quote "Peace, Land and Bread" means that the Russians wanted to leave WWI to have peace by signing the treaty with germany. The land part was for communism, the Bolshevik party led by Lenin who wanted all russians to revolt against landlords and factory owners and then take their land. The bread part was due to the czar who let the people in Russia starve.

Causes Of WW I

There were many causes for the first world war also known as The Great War. The first cause was Nationalism since the Austria-Hungary empire and the Balkans were made up of conflicting national groups such as Serbia. Nationalism also made the nations feel as if they were better than other nations. The next cause is Imperialism because all the European nations needed natrual resources due to the Industrial Revolution which led to them expanding into Africa and Asia. They competed for the economic expansion into Africa and Asia and fought for the land. The next cause was the alliances Germany, Austria-Hungary and Russia formed the triple alliance. When one country went to war all the allies were at war also protecting their allies in combat. The next cause is Militarism which was when they build stronger and larger armies which lead to fear and hatred between the other nations. The last cause is the assasination of the Archduke of the Austria-Hungary empire by a Serbian man. This then led to Austria punishing Serbia which led to Russia declaring war and then Germany declared war. All the other allies such as Great Britain then joined the war.