What aspects of Russian society were affected by the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917?

Answer 1

All aspects of Russian society were thrown into total disorder. There was no longer any stability within the frame work of the 'known' social structure. Property belonged to the masses. Social status was considered to be a crime against the Proletariat. Religion, Education, Political persuasion were all governed by the State. (Remember the words of Friedrich Nietzsche...."The State is the coldest of all cold creatures.....and coldly It lies too... and this lie creaps from It's mouth....."I, The State, am The People".....That is the whole revolution in a nut shell.)

Answer 2

Political - Absolute monarchy was gone and replaced by a socialist government of sorts. The Romanovs were executed. VI Lenin and the Soviet were in charge. Lenin also ended Russia's participation in WWI. Lenin modified Karl Marx' theory of the economic system of Communism to fit Russia's specific circumstances. He tried to jump from one economic system to another without fully realizing the consequences.

Economic - Lenin backed out of WWI and the country stopped producing (what little it actually did make) of war materials. Most people went on with their lives as farmers, since Russia was mainly an agrarian society before the Revolution. Lenin and the Politburo pushed for industrialization in the cities and all over Russia.

Social - Russian society was built like a pyramid; the elite (1%) were at the top holding (95%) of the wealth, clergy (about 1%) below that with less wealth, and the rest of the population holding up the bottom with less than 5% of the wealth. The Revolution was supposed to change this pyramid, to make everyone equal. However, what emerged was another pyramid with the Soviet or Communist party at the top with most of the wealth, and the rest of the proletariat on the bottom.

Religious - The religion before the Revolution mainly practiced in Russia was Eastern Orthodox Christianity. Of course there were other religions practiced, but EOC was practiced most commonly. After the Revolution, religion was seen as "the opiate of the masses" (Karl Marx) and was seen as a deterrent to good government and good judgment. Good Communists are supposed to be atheists, so there was no more state endorsed religion. In fact, many people were persecuted for practicing any religion at all.

Answer 3

The Bolsheviks (Russian: Большеви́к IPA [bəlʲʂɨˈvʲik], derived from bolshinstvo, "majority") were a faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) which split apart from the Menshevik faction[1] at the Second Party Congress in 1903 and ultimately became the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.[2] The Bolsheviks seized power in Russia during the October Revolution phase of the Russian Revolution of 1917, and founded the Soviet Union.

Bolsheviks were an organization of professional revolutionaries under a strict internal hierarchy governed by the principle of democratic centralism and quasi-military discipline, who considered themselves as a vanguard of the revolutionary proletariat. Their beliefs and practices were often referred to as Bolshevism.[3] The party was founded by Vladimir Lenin, who also led it in the October Revolution.

Because the revolution tore up all of its indebtness to the west, the U.S. and other countries did not trade with the Soviet Union as Communism began to spread. The entire economy suffered and a downward spiral began of economic deterioration for the duration of the Cummunist empire in the East.

Roads and the infrastructure began to crumble faster than could be repaired. Replacement parts were nowhere to be found for vehicles. The automotive industry and the farm industry were in shambles.

The Bolshevik Revolution was an immdeiate succes in that the Bolsheviks won and defeated the reigning monarchy, but lost in the long run as it became necessary to discard the Communist form of government under Mikael Gorbachev in the 1980's.

Answer 4

The Czar & company got their gonads blown off.