What took the thousands of lives in the Chinese and Russian revolutions for communism? Why?
2007-05-17 18:28:31 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Let me restate, why did the comm. revolutions result in the numerous amounts of deaths?
2007-05-17 18:38:25 · update #1
Because of warfare between the communist and non-communist factions, and communist purges of the losers once the war was over.
2007-05-17 18:41:59 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bullets, bayonets, swords, starvation took the lives
They thought they were getting a better life than under the previous rulers, but the new rulers were just as harsh as the old ones, if not more so.
2007-05-18 01:34:52 · answer #2 · answered by Mike1942f 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mostly mass executions and concentration labor camps for their own citizens.
2007-05-18 16:22:34 · answer #3 · answered by gospodar_74 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because people of insane nature took power, people of in western society would be serial killer's its not ideas its people with bad interntion
2007-05-20 16:56:21 · answer #4 · answered by mat67 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋