Russia went through a series of bad harvests that caused

starvation among the peasants. As industrialization

increased, discontent also grew among the middle class and

proletarians (workers) in the cities. As a result, Russians

found themselves drawn to three main polotical parties that

sought changes in government and promised a better future;

the liberal constitutionists, the populists and the

Marxists. The Marxists, who followed the socialist

teachings of Karl Marx, wanted to promote revolution among

the city workers. In 1898 a number of secret Marxist groups

in Russia joined and formed the Russian Social Democratic

Labor Party, which became the inception from which

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, who later added the name

Lenin, is the founder of Bolshevism, which later became

known as the Communist Party. This Communist doctrine is

based on the ideas and theories of Karl Marx. According to

Marx, the free enterprise system, which is based on

privately owned businesses, would eventually destroy itself.

As a result, economic depressions would occur. The

depressions would worsen until the workers would revolt and

anticsaric revolution. In the summer of 1914, Germany had

"Russia/Union of soviet Socialist Republics, history of"

Online. AOL. Available http://www.marxist.

On Sunday, Jan. 22, 1905 , Father Gapon, a Russian

and many were either killed or wounded. This day became

this time Bolsheviks had been building their membership in

in St. Petersburg, with the intentions of presenting their

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stating his view on the Russian Revolution. In one he

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