Question

the russian revoultion

Answer 1

yep im in 9th grade so yh

Answer 2

I see there are several questions at the end of the article. I assume those are what you're asking for help with?

Answer 3

Sorry, rhetorical question. I'll go ahead and copy the questions here so they're easy to see, then we can address them one by one
1. Was it a good idea for the Russian government to free the serfs?
2. Why would becoming a constitutional monarchy not be appealing to Czar
Nicholas II?
3. Was Russia any different under the provisional government? Why or why
not?
4. What does it mean when Lenin promised “Peace, Land, and Bread”?
5. What is the significance of the types of people that were included in the
Soviet government?

Answer 4

1. That's a really open-ended question, so it's kind of up to you how you want to answer it. On the one hand, it is clear that the people of Russia were not happy with the existing class system, since there had been so many rebellions in the past. Perhaps abolishing serfdom was a way of reducing these tensions by giving more freedom to the people. On the other hand, abolishing serfdom made it easier for the people to organize and actively resist the government, which could have made it easier for them to rebel later on. You could also argue that abolishing serfdom was inevitable, due to changes like industrialization, so the question of whether it was a "good idea" might not make sense. I'll leave it up to you how you want to address this one, since it doesn't seem like there's a single "right" answer

Answer 5

2. Keep in mind that Czar Nicholas was, at the time, the highest ruler of Russia. Shifting the government away from an absolute monarchy and towards a constitutional monarchy would have limited Czar Nicholas' power, which could be one reason why he was reluctant to consider that change, despite the pressure he was under from citizens

Answer 6

3. The article mentions that the provisional government was much less centralized and more fragmented than the previous form of government. Also, there were many reforms that the provisional government introduced, which certainly would be a difference compared to the previous form of government

Answer 7

4. "Peace" probably refers to stabilizing the government and bringing an end to the violent rebellions; "Land" is, I think, an issue of property rights as the article mentions "land reform and workers' control of factories"; "Bread" is pretty self-explanatory--in Lenin's promised Russia, supposedly, no one would have to go hungry

Answer 8

5. It seems that Lenin specifically tried to include people from the lower classes of society--"soldiers, peasants and workers"--into the government. How was this different from the status quo and how might it have changed the way the country was run?