This essay will be structured into three separate parts for comprehensibility. Firstly, I shall explain the factors leading up to the 1917 revolution and the .

             revolution itself, and secondly, I shall do the same with the Revolution of 1989. Finally, to round everything together, there will be a comparison of the .

             similarities and differences between the two revolutions. Onward:.

             For as long as anyone alive during the 1917 revolution could remember. for many hundreds of years, in fact, Russia was ruled by czarist regimes. The .

             czar was considered to be the autocrat. the absolute ruler. An individual's power was based on how many serfs and peasants he (for it was always a .

             he) owned. The majority of the population was severely repressed, and faced with terrible living conditions. economic, social, you name it. As you .

             could imagine, no commoner would want to live under such conditions and indeed, no one did. several attempts at insurrections against the czarist .

             government occurred during the 19th and 20th centuries, but it was not until 1917 that the people succeeded in their goals1. but to what end? Read .

             on.

             The people of Russia have spent many decades malcontented, but in 1917 the wars that were going on. WW1 and the war Russia waged against .

             Korea. were the proverbial straws that broke the camel's back. Russia, though it had many people and potential soldiers, had not been industrialized .

             enough to arm and equip them for battle, and czar Nicholas the 2nd (a rather weak leader, although he did have strong intentions3) diverted a large .

             amount of the nation's wealth toward the war effort. so much so that he forgot to pay attention to the commoners who were suffering due to his lack of .

             support. The majority of the population was horrendously poor, infant and maternal mortality was horrendously high, starvation was rampant (food was .

             scarce, since the large amounts of mobilizing troops took people away from agriculture) and simple social services such as health and education were .