Explain the result of the Russian …

The vast majority of people in the country were fed up with the Czar (Nicholas II), the royal family, and the aristocracy. Many of the former serfs were overworked and starving. Also, the people were embarrassed by their defeat in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905. The Bolsheviks, under Lenin, Stalin, Trotsky, and others had plotted for years for a major social upheaval and overthrow of the monarchy, and 1905 seemed to be an opportune time to foment revolution. The apparent idealism of Marxism was new to the world, and it appealed to many who wanted social justice. The 1905 Revolution failed, but it set the stage for the 1917 Revolution which was successful. Also, Russia’s involvement in WWI contributed heavily to the 2nd revolution. The rest, as they say, is history

(i) The Russian Revolution put an end to the autocratic Tsarist rule in

Russia. It abolished the Romanov

dynasty. (ii) It led to the establishment of world's first

communist/socialist government. (ii) The new Soviet Government announced its

withdrawal from the First World War. (iv) The socialist government announced the nationalization of all industries, private lands. Banks, mines, railways,

telephones, etc. These were declared as state's property. (v) Planned economic development started at the time of Stalin. Collectivization of agriculture was introduced by Stalin. From 1929, the party forced all peasants to cultivate in collective farms. (vi) Planned economy soon turned the USSR into a powerful industrial nation by the Second World War. Poverty began disappearing from Russia. With the outbreak of World War II, USSR had given socialism a global face.