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Comparat­ive essay on Tsar Nicholas II rule vs. Bolshevi­k Rule (Lenin)

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Gymnasium Oberursel

Note, Lehrer, Jahr

1, Dr. Langelüdecke, 2017

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Comparative History essay on the rule of Lenin and Tsar Nicholas II


Compare and Contrast the rule of Lenin and the Bolsheviks with that of Tsar Nicholas II:


Throughout the 20th century the powers that ruled over Russia, have not only changed how people lived in Russia at that time, but rather have changed the whole world. This essay will argue that some aspects of the tsarist rule and the Bolsheviks rule were similar and others were different, due to the fact that for example, under the Tsar people had more freedom, for example due to the local elections of a Zemstva (Walsh/ Marsh 102).

However under both the Bolsheviks and the Tsar, the use of repression through the state security (Okhrana/Red Army) was used to keep the people under control, to sustain and strengthen autocracy (Walsh/ Marsh 105, 117).


Some of the biggest similarities and largest differences can be established if one takes a look at the political (governmental) aspects of the two rules. The first similarity being, that under the rule of the Tsar and under the rule of the Bolsheviks, the form of government was autocracy/dictatorship (even though communists would strongly argue against that), because one person was in full power over the country (Walsh/ Marsh 99, BBC Peoples Century Red Flag).

Another similarity was that there were no parliaments under the rule of both the Tsar and the Bolsheviks (Walsh/ Marsh 99, 117). This not only supported the idea of autocracy under the tsarist rule, but also strengthened the Bolshevik dictatorship. However, under tsarist and the Bolshevik rule, some political aspects also differed.

One of them was the hardship and amount of restriction/censorship. Under the tsar, opposition for example in the form of parties or newspapers were allowed unless they were too extreme or went strictly against Tsarist policies or the Tsar himse.....[Volltext lesen]

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Even though, there weren’t many economic similarities, one similarity was that during both regimes certain people like the Mir under the Tsar (Walsh/ Marsh 102) or the Bolshevik government as a whole (Walsh/ Marsh 124) had certain privileges when it came to economy and society, which is the next topic which will be discussed in this essay.


As already mentioned above, under both Tsarist and Bolshevik rule, society was based on inequality (Walsh/ Marsh 103, BBC Peoples Century Red Flag), which can be easily depicted as a similarity. Under the Tsar, the aristocracy had many privileges, one of them being that only aristocrats could hold important roles in the government (BBC Peoples Century Red Flag).

Under the Bolsheviks, all party members had more rights and therefore certain privileges, one of them being that only party members could control an important commercial property, for example a factory (BBC Peoples Century Red Flag). Another similarity in society was the status of people.

In Tsarist Russia, the lowest one could be was a factory worker or peasant. Next came the capitalists (rich people) and above that the army. The second highest ranks would be reserved for the church and the highest of course being the Tsars family (Romanov) (Walsh/ Marsh 103).

When the Bolsheviks came to power, this status pyramid got only changed a little. At the bottom were the workers and the peasants. Above them came medium ranking party members (the new commercial property owners etc.). Above them came the red army, and the highest status was reserved for the top party members like Lenin.

As one can see here, the only difference which occurred was that one replaced the capitalists with medium ranking party members and replaced the church and the aristocrats (most importantly the Tsarist/Romanov family) with the high to highest ranking Bolshevik party members (BBC Peoples .....

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