WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Russian Revolution was a period of political and social revolution that took place in the former Russian Empire, begun during the First World War. This period saw Russia abolish its monarchy and adopt a socialist form of government following two successive revolutions and a bloody civil war.

Detailed explanation-2: -The global impact of the Russian Revolution was that the Bolshevik Revolution helped spread socialist and communist ideas around the world. Communist governments were established in many European countries. This gave the world a new economic system which is known as socialism.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Russian Civil War ended in 1923 with Lenin’s Red Army claiming victory and establishing the Soviet Union. After many years of violence and political unrest, the Russian Revolution paved the way for the rise of communism as an influential political belief system around the world.

Detailed explanation-4: -A key aspect that affected the Bolshevik regime was the backward economic conditions in Russia that were considered unfavourable to orthodox Marxist theory of communist revolution. At the time, orthodox Marxists claimed that Russia was ripe for the development of capitalism, not yet for socialism.