French Revolution
Pre-revolutionary government and society provided the appropriate factors to bring the nations of France and Russia to revolution. To say that they provided the necessary ferment we must analyse society and government in their own right to reveal the pressures that were placed upon the people of both nations through society's structure and autocratic nature of their rulers. The parallels we can draw between the French revolution of 1789 and the Russian revolt beginning in 1881 are paramount in giving us a sense of the necessary ferment/breakdown. The structure of pre-revolutionary French society and Russian society are remarkably similar, they can be broken down in to three separate groups. In Russia they were known only as classes and they could be split in to three; 'the ruling class' included the Tsar and his various forms of court and government (although the Tsar's power was absolute), 'the upper class' which contained the nobility, higher clergy and military officers and 'the working class' which made up roughly eighty seven and half percent of the population and included peasants, merchants, factory owners, land dwellers and agricultural workers. The French system of social class was almost identical except they called it
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Approximate Word count = 1132
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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