The Russian Revolution

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The Russian Revolution

Today, when one thinks of the communist form of government,

they often think of oppression, domination and corruption. We see

that people do not have the freedom to their rights and are not

allowed to go forth and conquer their goals. However, communism in

its pure form appeared to be fair and just. The idea of communism

basically formed around the idea of equality. The people under this

rule were to have equal land, as well as equal pay. This way there

was to be no form of inequality or segregation among them. There

are many mixed feelings on the topic of communism, and I myself am

not able to tell you just what I think of it. Reading 7.2 actually

compared communism to being similar to nazism. Most every country

goes through a revolution, in order to sort everything out. There

will always be a rise and fall in a country's history and in 1917

it was Russias turn to revolt. Within this revolution communism was

certainly a strong factor, along with the suffering of the

peasants.

I believe communism in its pure form to be a good thing. I

like the fact that everyone is equal, and allowed equal

opportunities thus, no one is of a lower or higher class. Now the

only real problem with communism is that people are not born with

equal mindsets. Some people are born with the drive to succeed,

they want more things in life than what they are given and will

work hard for it. Then there are those who feel like what they have

is good enough. That is where communism will oppress the people who

want to succeed and will be helping out the people who in a normal

society would not have had much to begin with.

What happened in Russia was certainly wrong, especially since

the communism had similarities with nazism. One strong example

would be the massacre of the kulaks, who were known as the rich

peasants. From reading 7.2 it was quite evident that the kulaks

were treated like the Jews in Germany. Its terrible that these

people were discriminated against. Technically, if communism was to

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