Revolution

Russian Revolution (1905- 1917)

The Russian Revolution of 1905 was a revolt, anti spontaneous, widespread throughout the Russian Empire. Apparently he had no direction or control, nor any objective recognized. She is generally regarded as the starting point of the changes in Russia that culminated in the Russian Revolution of 1917. The Russian revolution is given as a cause or consequence of the decline of capitalism. Tsarist autocracy masked a stagnant rural economy. The revolutionary process that begins in the Tsarist Empire in 1905 and ending in October 1917 is one of the most important phenomena of the twentieth century. The transformation of a country ruled by an autocratic empire, became socialist federal republic; a society of impoverished peasants rose to the status of major industrial power. In 1905 the revolt of the bourgeois liberals and constitucionalcitas against arbitrary autocracy occurs. It was a workers 'revolt that led to the first election of workers' soviets. The 1905 revolution was a peasant revolt spontaneous and lacking coordination against the autocracy of the Tsar. Prior to the outbreak of revolution, the tsar had dissolved the Duma, but in February 1917, the Soviets and the press pushed the people to the taking of the Winter Palace, residence of the czar, with the support of the army.

The abdication of Czar was all that could stop the riots, autocracy was replaced by an interim government based on the authority of the Duma.

Many peasant protests occur, the figure of the Tsar appears as guarantor of order and the foreign investor that applied repression and violence. The czar was political power. At that time there was a landowning elite with all their lands exploited peasants, an extremely weak industrial bourgeoisie.

Few non-union workers and some farmers rich, with some lands, the kulaks, and many very disgruntled soldiers and unemployed. Those who were most dissatisfied were:

§ The peasants exploited

§ unemployed Soldiers

§ The workers with miserable wages.

The three groups have organized to form soviets were organized across the country to create what was the world's first socialist revolution in 1917.

In 1905 Russia lost the war against Japan, and that's where they begin to appear the first soviets.

In 1917 the Bolsheviks took power, the party must modernize agrarian and backward Russia, and create the economic base required to support the political superstructure that had arisen as a result of the October Revolution. At that time there were political branches gift: the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks.

They should retain the worker-peasant alliance that had allowed them to come to power. There was a common sense of the peasants and workers to run things his way. This was a mass movement inspired utopias and enthusiasm. They rejected the idea of ​​centralized authority. The Provisional Government and the Soviets were not allies were rather antagonistic. The goal was a republic of Soviets of Workers' Deputies, peasants and poor peasants. In the soviets there was a political party that wanted to take power: the Bolsheviks.

For Lenin, Russia had to abandon the war, in 1918 begin peace negotiations. Troski proposed a peace without attachments or compensation, Lenin thought that was a shameful peace, territories with Germany was lost.

Lenin in this context posits a communist internacionala III.

One can say that war communism industry began with a decree in 1918, which nationalized all major industry categories, industrial production was increasingly dominated by the urgencies of civil war. What led the peasants to revolt against war communism was widespread requisitioning of surplus grain. He refused to labor. The unions were sidelined.

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