The Russian Revolution began in 1917 and was also known as the Bolshevik Revolution. The events occurring on Bloody Sunday lead to very large protests and the communist party began in Russia. There were many causes to this revolution but a main reason was because peasants living in Russia were getting unfair and harsh treatment. Workers were not content with their basic everyday lives, they had to work 10 hour days 6 days a week, also the past years of brutal life for lower class people caused the crazed uprising of the Bolsheviks.
Who Are The Bolsheviks?
The Bolsheviks were founded in 1905 by Vladamir Lennin and were a faction of the MarxistRussian Social Democratic Labour Party. The Bolsheviks came to power during the October Revolution and ultimately became the Communist party of Russia during that time. This was a organization that consisted of workers under a hierarchy system governed by democratic centralism. The main leader to this revolution was Leon Trotisky and under him they considered themselves the revolutionary working class of Russia.
October Revolution
The October Revolution was the beginning which overturned the initial government and began the Soviet Union. After this stage the people of the Bolsheviks realized that without help from any other political parties there now larger group of people still wouldn't be able to succeed. In January they declared they were abandoning Democracy and becoming a Dictatorship of the Proletariat.