World war one- the death of revolution?

[danny bohy]

Ive been studing WWI for school and as far as i can gather ( as sources are bias and tend to ignore the subject) europes working class was very volatile before the war and in some cases ready to revolt. Russia obvioulsy did revlot in 1917.
Do you think my hypothesis is right in that the main powers government would have been quite keen for a war to distract the peoples anger? this was certainly the case as trade unions agreed to arbitration in germany and britain and many of the working class rushed to join the war. People were more trusting of their governments in 1914 and were not awear of this tactic like we are now(for example thatcher in the falklands).
After the war socialism/marxism never seemed as strong and we know now that people have been dumbed down and media control has spread making it less likely for people to think about revolution and more likely to control capitalism.
Your thoughts? do u think WWI was a setup by governments to calm the proletariat?
or am i an idiot?

[AK]

It is an interesting and perhaps plausable theory. I recommend you read this article from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutions_of_1917-23.

[Sasha]

no i think its more the other way around.
it was the final nail in the cofin of feudalism and aristrocacy with political power.

the whole of europe got dragged in this horrible war under the pretext of my nephew got shot and now i get all my friends to fight your friends and you better surrender or your not welcome in the secret tree house anymore. ;)

a popular revolt (spartakus uprising) ended the war and send the kaizer packing.
and i dare say that if the war would have continued maybe even the tommies and the french would have revolted.

so no, i think that WOI was not the death of revolution (the death of revolution was the subsequent sell out of the proletariat to the bourgoisy by the social democrats)

[Dimentio]

I am in agreement with Psycho. If WW1 never had broken out, the Russian, German, Austrian and Ottoman empires would have survived for a bit longer, and probably be replaced by some sort of moderate conservative republics.

[danny bohy]

It may have been the final nail in the coffin fo feadalism but capitalism thrived after the war. imperialism just became more suttle.

[Dimentio]

It may have been the final nail in the coffin fo feadalism but capitalism thrived after the war. imperialism just became more suttle.

Feudalism was dead since basically the late 18th century. But the fall of European feudalism was a protracted story which occurred in waves between year 1347 and 1815, with the Peace of Westphalia as the big water-shed.