Capitalism In Russia Essay

Thesis statement: Can democracy and capitalism really exist in Russia? Since the times of the Russian Empire, starting from 1825 Decembrists revolt up till the collapse of Soviet Union, Russian people tried countless times to build a reliable civil society. Yet they have failed each and every single time to achieve it. This paper will explore the examples of the failure of such attempts in the past, and give a consensus opinion on what is needed to create a genuine democratic government in modern day Russia.

Main supporting text: Russia’s Curse: “Weak Political Institutions Unable to Restrain Arbitrary Leadership.” “A very special version of Russian democracy”

Democratic Institutions is the way to go towards building Economic Institutions

Whether the poet wanted to articulate the idea that "Russia is so special" and no other nation has an experience that is comparable to it or that he just wanted to say that an each country is upheld and stands on the beliefs of its inhabitants; is very debatable, but I would relish to believing that he meant the latter. When Russia was lagging behind the rest of the Europe in the 16th-early 17th century, after decades of instability during "Times of Trouble", it was Peter the Great that brought the country to the same pace as other leading European countries of the time. But due to it's ever increasing need of expansion and highly centralized power of central government along with absolute power of the Tsar, while the same European countries were building their own pluralistic institutions, Russia was still holding on to it's authoritarian absolute monarchist rule which caused the Decembrist Revolt and a wave of other insurgencies demanding secession of powers of the monarch or even change of the whole system, as in case of Bolsheviks, which resulted in Bloody Sunday on January 22nd, 1905. Forcing Tsar Nicholas to issue creation of Parliament, which later he dismissed on 2 occasions. Resulting in ever growing anger over the government, the unsuccessful Russo-Japanese War(8 February 1904 – 5 September 1905), later the unnecessary involvement in the First World War was the last sip of mistakes and sufferings that the population could endure and the rest is history as we