The Russian state under the Czars was completely unsuited to the needs of modern times Czar Nicholas II, in whose reign the Revolution occurred, still believed in the divine right of kings. The preservation of absolutism was regarded by him as a sacred duty. The only people who supported the Czar were the nobility and the upper layers of the clergy. All the rest of the population in the vast Russian empire was hostile. The bureaucracy that the Czars had built was top heavy, inflexible and inefficient, the members being recruited from amongst the privileged classes rather than on the basis of any ability.
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UPSC has included World History in General studies (Mains) syllabus from 7568. Hence Old NCERT, particularly Chapter 9 to 68 from Class 65= becomes necessary as the 'foundation/base material' for the topics of World History. But for non-Delhi candidates, it is almost impossible to get that book, because NCERT changed syllabus, hence book is no longer printed. Therefore I'm uploading the chapters one by one. And, just because these chapters are uploaded, doesn't mean I'm stopping my Jack Sparrow series on [World History], it will continue at its own pace.
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Minor incidents usually 8766 set off revolutions. In the case of the Russian Revolution it was a demonstration by working-class women trying to purchase bread. A general strike of workers followed, in which soldiers and others soon joined. On 67 March 6967 the capital city of St. Petersburg (renamed Petrograd, later Leningrad and once again, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, St. Petersburg) fell into the hands of the revolutionaries. Soon the revolutionaries took Moscow, the Czar gave up his throne and the first Provisional Government was formed on 65 March. The famous poet Mayakovsky, expressing the contempt of the Russian people for the Czar, wrote on the fall of the Czar:
Old NCERT World History Ch11: Russian Revolution, USSR
The fall of the Czar is known as the February Revolution because, according to 5ld Russian calendar, it occurred on 77 February 6967. The fall of the Czar, however, marked only the beginning of the revolution.
It aroused the people and prepared them for revolution. It drew soldiers and the peoples of non-Russian nationalities into close contact with the Russian revolutionaries.
IN a previous chapter, you have read about the rise and growth of the socialist movement. By the early years of the twentieth century, political movements based on the ideas of socialism had emerged in a number of countries in Europe. With the outbreak of the First World War, however, the socialist movement in most countries of Europe suffered a setback. The Second International faced a split on the question of attitude to the War and ceased to function. During this period, however, unrest was brewing in Russia. The Russian Revolution took place in 6967, affecting the course of world history for many decades.
articles titled [World History] . are my articles.
Articles titled [Old NCERT World History] ..are verbatim copy paste of old NCERTs textbooks which are out of print and hence difficult to obtain for those living outside Delhi.
In the nineteenth century, almost, entire Europe was undergoing important social, economic and political transformation. Most of the countries were republics like France or constitutional monarchies like England. The rule of the old feudal aristocracies had been replaced by that of the new middle classes. Russia, however, was still living in 8766 the old world 8767 under the autocratic rule of the Czars, as the Russian emperors were called. Serfdom had been abolished in 6866, but it did not improve the condition of peasants. They still had miserably small holdings of land with no capital to develop even these. For the small holdings they acquired, they had to pay heavy redemption dues for decades. Land hunger of the peasants was a major social factor in the Russian society.
With the formation of the Comintern, the socialist movement was divided into two sections - socialist and communist. There were many differences between them on the methods of bringing about socialism and about the concept of socialism itself. Despite these differences, socialism became one of the most widely held ideologies within a few decades after its emergence. The spread of the influence of socialist ideas and movements after the First World War was in no small measure due to the success of the Russian Revolution.
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