Question

Explain any 5 effects of the Russian Revolution of 1917 over Russia.

Answer 1

Hint: The Russian revolution was a phase of political and social revolutions across the territory of the Russian empire that began with the scrapping of monarchy in 1917 and ending with the establishment of soviet Union in 1923. On 22nd January 1905, the capital city of St. Peterberg fell into the hands of workers who marched towards the Tsar's palace to revolt and the day is marked as the "bloody Sunday". According to the Julian calendar, the February revolution began on march 8, 1917. With the outbreak of WWII , USSR had given socialism a global face.

Complete answer:
The major consequences of the Russian revolution 1917 were -
- The Russian Revolution had put an end to the autocratic Tsarist rule in Russia by terminating the Romanov dynasty. This led to the formation of the world's first communist or socialist government.
- The socialist government declared the communisation of all industries, private lands, banks, railways and mines. These were later declared as the state's own properties.
- Planned economy soon turned the USSR into a powerful industrial nation by WWII due to which poverty began to disappear in Russia. Basically The rural economy changed into industrial economy.
- From 1929, the party forced all the peasants to cultivate in collective farms which brought agriculture into prime focus.
- They brought several jurisdictions into unification under the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in 1922 one of them being, giving equal rights to women as those given to men.
- After the revolution, Russia exits WWI by signing a peace treaty with Germany which was called the treaty of Brest-litovsk.
- From 1918-1920, Russia experienced a civil war between the Bolsheviks and Anti-Bolsheviks in which the prior group won and eventually Russia got declared as USSR.

Note: Before the revolution, Russia was governed and ruled by a monarch called the Tsar. The Tsar had total power in Russia as he directed the army, possessed most of the land and also controlled the church.
- In 1914, when world war I began and Russia was at war with Germany. The Russian people blamed the Tsar for participating in the war.
- The Bolsheviks group which was led by Vladimir Lenin, believed that the new Russian government should be a communist government and so this was called the Bolshevik's revolution.
- Russia was proclaimed as a republic on September 1 and thereby the first communist country in the world.