Bolshevik Revolution Dbq
1. What were the consequences of the Bolshevik Revolution and why does Hobsbawm call it the central event of the 20th century?
There were many consequences from the Bolshevik revolution. Farmland was distributed among farmers, and factories are given to workers. The banks were nationalized and a national council was assembled to run the economy. Russia pulled out of World War I, signing the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, conceding lots of land to Germany. Civil war, between Bolshevik (“red”) and anti-Bolshevik (“white”) forces, sweeps Russia from 1918 to 1920. Around 15 million die in conflict and the famine. The Russian economy is in shambles. Industrial production drops, trade all but ceases, and skilled workers flee the country. Despite the …show more content…
From the standpoint of the study of political ideologies, what idea or piece of information found in Hobsbawm’s chapter 2 The World Revolution did you find the most surprising (unexpected) or controversial (ungrounded)? Explain why you found it surprising or controversial.
I would have to say the Bolshevik Revolution was the idea of information that I found most unexpected. The Communist Party of the Soviet Union arose from the Bolshevik wing of the Russian Social Democratic Workers’ Party. The Bolsheviks, organized in 1903, were led by Vladimir I. Lenin, and they argued for a tightly disciplined organization of professional revolutionaries who were governed by democratic centralism and were dedicated to achieving the dictatorship of the proletariat. I did not know that this party was led and organized by Vladimir Lenin. He then laid down the guidelines of the party’s political, ideological, and organizational activity and its strategy and tactics at various stages of the class struggle and revolutionary battles. He saw the party as the decisive factor in building socialism and communism. Basing himself on Marx’ and Engels’ ideas concerning the proletarian party and generalizing from the experiences of the Russian and international revolutionary movement from a critical point of
There were many consequences from the Bolshevik revolution. Farmland was distributed among farmers, and factories are given to workers. The banks were nationalized and a national council was assembled to run the economy. Russia pulled out of World War I, signing the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, conceding lots of land to Germany. Civil war, between Bolshevik (“red”) and anti-Bolshevik (“white”) forces, sweeps Russia from 1918 to 1920. Around 15 million die in conflict and the famine. The Russian economy is in shambles. Industrial production drops, trade all but ceases, and skilled workers flee the country. Despite the …show more content…
From the standpoint of the study of political ideologies, what idea or piece of information found in Hobsbawm’s chapter 2 The World Revolution did you find the most surprising (unexpected) or controversial (ungrounded)? Explain why you found it surprising or controversial.
I would have to say the Bolshevik Revolution was the idea of information that I found most unexpected. The Communist Party of the Soviet Union arose from the Bolshevik wing of the Russian Social Democratic Workers’ Party. The Bolsheviks, organized in 1903, were led by Vladimir I. Lenin, and they argued for a tightly disciplined organization of professional revolutionaries who were governed by democratic centralism and were dedicated to achieving the dictatorship of the proletariat. I did not know that this party was led and organized by Vladimir Lenin. He then laid down the guidelines of the party’s political, ideological, and organizational activity and its strategy and tactics at various stages of the class struggle and revolutionary battles. He saw the party as the decisive factor in building socialism and communism. Basing himself on Marx’ and Engels’ ideas concerning the proletarian party and generalizing from the experiences of the Russian and international revolutionary movement from a critical point of