Question

how did Russia’s involvement in World War I spark full-scale revolution in Russia and the creation of the world’s first communist government?

Answer 1

The 1917 Russian Revolution was one of the 20th Century's most disruptive revolutionary activities. The violent revolution marked the end of the Romanov dynasty and Russian Colonial rule for decades. The Bolsheviks, led by the left-wing leader Vladimir Lenin, took power during the Russian Revolution, and ended the system of csarist rule. Later, the Bolsheviks would become the Soviet Union Communist Party.

Two revolutions swept through Russia in 1917, ending centuries of imperial rule, and setting political and social changes in motion which would lead to the establishment of the Soviet Union. Although the two revolutionary developments happened within a few short months, Russia's social turmoil had been simmering for decades. In the early 1900s, Russia was one of Europe's most destitute countries with a large peasantry and a increasing minority of poor factory workers.

Russia developed much later than the United States and Western Europe. As it actually did, it brought with it enormous social and political changes at the turn of the 20th century. For example, between 1890 and 1910, the population of major Russian cities such as St. Petersburg and Moscow nearly doubled, creating overcrowded and poor living conditions for a new class of Russian industrial workers

After the Bolshevik Revolution in late 1917 Civil War broke out in Russia. Red and White Armies featured warring factions. The Red Army fought for the rule of the Lenin bolsheviks. The White Army embodied a large coalition of loosely aligned powers including monarchists, capitalist and democratic socialist supporters. The Russian Revolution paved the way for communism to emerge as an dominant form of political values worldwide. It set the stage for the Soviet Union's emergence as a world power that would go head-to-head with the US during the Cold War.