Was Rasputin a cause or consequence of Russias Problems?

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Explain how Marxism contributed to the Bolshevik Revolution.

               Marxism is a political theory that was thought up by Karl Marx (1818 – 1883). He saw two different worlds, the rich and the poor, within this he saw the rich exploiting the poor.  He said; ‘workers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your chains. You have the world to gain.’ This means you can’t lose anything if you try and this is how he thought it would happen. Russia in 1846 was in a state of feudalism. This meant that the wealth belonged to the rich landowners. Following this was Capitalism, where the middle class started taking power and the country began to industrialise. Socialism followed this, it was the stage where the workers had overthrown the government and split everything equally but there was still a government while ideas were evolved. Finally there was communism which was when the government, money, police and army had all gone and everything was fair. This, in Marx’s eyes was Utopia. I’m going to look at the links between this theory and the Bolshevik Revolution.

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               Lenin read this theory and did use this as a basis for the Bolshevik revolution but there were other factors that also led to the revolution; starvation, weak governments, poor decisions by Tsar Nicholas II, failures in WW1 and many other factors that contributed to the Bolshevik revolution.

               Tsar Nicholas was a bad leader and made a fatal decision in 1915 to take control of the Russian army after a quarter of their men had died in the first year; this meant any defeat he ...

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