Russian Revolution! Help!

[Ali_Imran]

I have an essay due TOMORROW.

This is the thesis:

The Russian Revolution transferred property from the capitalist class to the working class.

I have to find 10 quotions from this: http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/...rks/1924/12.htm (http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1924/12.htm)

Explain how transfer of property was accomplished, and give a brief chronology of the revolution.

That stuff is 31 pages long! And I don't even understand it! Can some one smart, tell me what the heck just happened in this revolution?! How the heck do I start this essay! And the teacher is so stupid, he wants the chronology in the 2nd paragraph! I don't even know what 3 arguments to use!



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Okay I just wrote something under 1 minute and 24 seconds:

The chain of events that took place in Russia prior to 1917, and the formation of the state USSR in 1917 was a task that took years, hard work and courage. These tasks were collaborated and became to be known as the Russian Revolution. This revolution was a success not only in one aspect. One main asset that could be stated about the revolution is the transfer of property from the capitalist class to the working class.

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I just want to know what properties my teacher is talking about, cuz' the class is divided into 3, Russian, French and British, so he hasn't gone over with us, on what we have to do. Just gave us the sheet and left us on our own.

I'm obviously going to need 3 arguments explaining, how the properties from capitalist to working class got transferred, but the point is, I don't even know what properties they are talking about.

[Ali_Imran]

Guys can't any one give me some basic information? I just need three ways on how the properties were transfered (I don't even know what properties), but after that I'll do it my self. Just need the basics.

[ComradeOm]

What forms of property? The two that I think of off hand are - land and factories.

Land is the most obvious one. The Russian Revolution saw the end of the previous dominant form of peasant commune, the mir, a process that had ironically been started under the Tsar. Land was taken from large private estates and divided up amongst the peasants in the months both before and after the October Revolution. This was one of the main reasons for the demise of the Imperial Army - the peasant soldiers deserted en masse to return to the villages to take part in the land division.

The factories actually took a step backwards during the October Revolution. In the immediate months prior to it factory committees had emerged that effectivatly ran the factories, often in opposition to the owners themselves. These committees were worker run and were not favoured by the Bolsheviks. However the Russian bourgeois was eliminated and their holdings went to the state.

[Ali_Imran]

Thanks a lot, really appreciate it. So I could say collectivisation and the "decree of land".

What could a third point be? Or should I just stick with the two, and focus on the chronology in the 2nd paragraph?

Any small argument would do, really.

In the article it also mentions this:

Firstly, the October Revolution enjoyed the most active support of the overwhelming majority of the working class in Russia.

[Ali_Imran]

The chain of events that took place in Russia prior to 1917, and the formation of the state USSR in 1917 was a task that took a lot of hard work and courage. These tasks were collaborated into what became to be known as the Russian Revolution. This revolution was a success not only in one, but many aspects. One main asset that could be stated about the revolution is the transfer of property from the capitalist class to the working class. This transfer was achieved successfully through division of land among the peasants, through the active support of the working class people and through the fact that capitalist was not fully devolved and socialism was victorious over it.


^That's what I have so far.
Is it right?

[STN]

The Russian Revolution of 1917 was a series of political events in Russia, which, after the elimination of the Russian autocracy system, and the Provisional Government (Duma), resulted in the establishment of the Soviet power under the control of the Bolshevik party. This eventually led to the establishment of the Soviet Union, which lasted until its dissolution in 1991.

The Revolution can be viewed in two distinct phases:

The February Revolution of 1917, which displaced the autocracy of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, the last effective Tsar of Russia, and sought to establish in its place a liberal republic.
The October Revolution, in which the Bolshevik party, led by Vladimir Lenin, instigated a coup to overthrow the Provisional Government, presenting the takeover as a revolution in the name of the workers' Soviets. While many notable historical events occurred in Moscow and St. Petersburg, there was also a broad based movement in the rural areas as peasants seized and redistributed land.

[STN]

a really good thing about the february revolution, was that the bolshevik overtrew the czar. thats what MANY of the russians wanted.