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Russian Revolution Dbq Analysis

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The mess that causes the Russian Revolution The three cause of the Russian revolution was a long-term cause, short-term cause, and one in the middle. The long term cause was that the people of Russian were overwhelmed because of the population of the poor peasants. ‘'( between 1649-1861) the majority of those peasants were enserfed. They lived like slaves on land owned by noblemen.'' (doc.1) so the peasants were pretty much like slaves. There were more poor people who were farmers and they didn't have food .this lead people aka poor people go into a rant and wanted to overthrow tsar's government. The middle term cause was that tsar had too much power in his hands. In ‘' the 19th century a significant minority of the Russian population began to call for a voice in the government'' (doc.1) so people thought the ones …show more content…

‘' they had to won't until their own comrades were killed to pick up their guns to defend themselves.'' (doc.1) they were sent to war with no guns, boots, and they need to wait till one of their own comrades were dead to take their gun or boots. Another thing was the Bolshevik revolution, ‘' in October 1917 a coup carried out by a small group of fanatical''. (doc.2) this was lead by power hungry socialist or popular democratic moment that was supported by the majority of people. This all started when tsar abdicated and left the power in the vacuum. " March 1917, the country was at war and the people in power didn't think they could withdraw from the war and abandon their allies, or stop to hold a constitutional convention. So they created an interim "Provisional Government" until they could end the war." (DOC.2) So the people who had the power didn't really believe they could withdraw from the war so they made this thing called ‘'provisional government'' so they have time to think how they could end the

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