Summary of S. A. Smith's The Russian Revolution

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• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Apr 1, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669380054

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The Russian Revolution of 1917 was the result of a modernization crisis. The government tried to modernize Russia’s economy in an external and internal environment that was deeply threatening to the autocracy.

#2

Russia was the last country to abolish serfdom, and the emancipation of 1861 left peasants feeling cheated since the landed gentry kept roughly one-sixth of the land. The average peasant allotment shrank by one-third between 1861 and 1900.

#3

The Russian intelligentsia, which had been campaigning for the autocracy to grant them civil and political rights, played a role similar to that of the European bourgeoisie in overthrowing the autocracy in 1917. The industrial proletariat, which was becoming more concentrated in certain regions and large enterprises, had a political influence out of proportion to their numbers.

#4

The Russian Revolution of 1905 destroyed the loyalty of the peasant population to their little father, the tsar, and the Stolypin reforms failed to create a new base of conservative farmers. The autocracy was losing its traditional supporters.

#5

The First World War marked a watershed in Europe’s history, destroying empires, discrediting liberal democracy, and preparing the way for the totalitarian politics of the 1920s and 1930s. It exposed all the belligerents