The Success of the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917

The Success of the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917

Part 1

Karl Marks was not Russian and he died 34 years before the Russian

revolution, he was a German who spent most his life in England. He

worked as a journalist but wrote books on history, religion,

economics, society, and philosophy. Marx hated the system of

capitalism because he thought that it was capitalism that had produced

the problems of industry, poor living conditions and the social gap of

the rich and poor. He thought that the system destroyed people and

made them greedy and that people only wanted something if it was worth

money. Karl Marx realised that there was not enough money to make

everyone rich but he did thin k the world would be better if society

was turned on its head and started again. He had a list of ideas and

together they are called communism, meaning that everything is owned

in common. The lists of ideas are:

• As there is not enough of everything to go around, everyone should

be given just what they need rather than what they wanted.

• People should be taught to share things together rather than keep

things for themselves, no-one should have any possessions.

• If everything is shared then there can be no theft. There will be no

need for policeman.

There would be many problems creating this perfect world. Karl Marx

had three solutions on how this could be done. His first solution of

was of a violent revolution which would be needed to change society

for the better. The workers would run the government until communism

could be achieved. This in-between government would be called

socialism. The second solution was that people are made greedy...

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So was all of these reasons were important to why the Bolshevik

revolution of 1917 successful. However, It was mainly because of the

inequality in Russian society at the time was the reason for

revolution. It was the communist ideas of the Bolsheviks that appealed

to the peasants more because it promised them more land and money

which is why the Bolsheviks ended up revolting. The unpopularity of

the provisional government set up the write time for them to revolt

and brought in more supporters and there wouldn’t have been reason to

revolt if the provisional government had been popular. The failure of

the Kornilov Revolt helped them to set up the strong fighting force

they needed to start a revolution. I believe if any of these main

factors hadn’t been there the revolution would not have been a

success.