HISTORY
WORLD WAR I AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
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both dramatically increased the equality of women.
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both found themselves alone against foreign powers.
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both supported international wars to rally the people
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both were directly responsible for overthrowing the monarchy.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Inspired by the idea of liberty, revolutionaries fought against aristocratic and colonial rule. They sparked the Haitian Revolution of 1791, the Irish Rebellion of 1798 and revolutionary wars in Latin America. More closely linked were the upheavals of 1848.
Detailed explanation-2: -The French revolution was the result of a bad economy with unbearable taxes and the bad leadership of Louis XVI. The Russian revolution was the result of a bad economy and the bad leadership of Tsar Nicolas II. Fate of the Monarchy: The monarchy of France saw an end due to the French revolution.
Detailed explanation-3: -A similarity between both is that their citizens were starving. On Animal Farm, the animals were overworked and starved, Farmer Jones failing to feed them. Similarly, the citizens of Russia prior to the rebellion starved, sources stating that there was a food crisis in the capital.
Detailed explanation-4: -October Revolution, also called Bolshevik Revolution, (Oct. 24–25 [Nov. 6–7, New Style], 1917), the second and last major phase of the Russian Revolution of 1917, in which the Bolshevik Party seized power in Russia, inaugurating the Soviet regime. See Russian Revolution of 1917.