Wednesday, January 13, 2010

The Russian Revolution

The Russian Revolution also known as the Great October revolution (or Bolshevik) was the first attempt of communism. The cause were devastating because 1. The russians were tired of fighting and dying during world war 1. As a result the russian army started to desert, to mutiny , or they simply refused to listen to orders.
 Czar Nicholas refused to give the russian people more freedom and more angry. The russian army was still back wards; most people were peasants and there was a small amount of factory workers
 People began to starve in the cities and they began to protest.

The causes of world war 1

The world war 1 started with the archduke of  Austria Franz  Ferdinand when he was assassinated . The people made triple alliance with Italy, Austria, and Germany. Other people made a triple entente with France, Britain, and Russia. The triple alliance and entente builded up militaries with anticipation of war. There was trench warfare with modern weapons like machine guns, tanks, planes, cannons and etc.