The Bolshevik Revolution Essay Research Paper The

The Bolshevik Revolution Essay, Research Paper

The painting was done in the 1920.s some time

after the actual event making it secondary evidence. To a certain extent it is

historically accurate because the storming of the Winter Palace did take place

but it is inaccurate as there was not a great struggle between the Bolsheviks

and Provisional Government. The only Provisional Government soldiers present

that night were a women.s battalion because the Russian soldiers were fighting

in the war. .This is

obviously propaganda by the artist who shows a lot of resistance in his

painting. This is because the Bolsheviks believed it was their job to create a

revolution, and although they respected Karl Marx did not want it to happen as

he said. We can see that the source is quite unreliable because of what it

tells us about the Storming of the Winter Palace and how it portrays the

Bolsheviks. It was obviously painted by a Bolshevik supporter because of these

reasons.Source B was done in 1917 . It is Primary

evidence. It is a cartoon that shows a woman representing mother Russian

dressed in Greek Orthodox robes about to be sacrificed by Lenin and Trotsky,

the .tools. to make a 1917 revolution. Alexander Kerensky the leader of the

provisional government is stood well back doing nothing. He is neutral, not

portrayed as being on either side. Also looking on are two of Lenin.s soldiers,

some Red Guards and some Jews shown by their biblical 50 pieces of silver.The cartoon gives the impression that Russia

will be destroyed by Lenin and Trotsky Lenin. Kerensky did nothing to ease the

situation and he does not really do much – he became more European with his

views. It is him the Red Guards are laughing at. – they are made to look nasty by the artist, because they are the

enemy. The cartoonist is a supporter of the Whites because he makes the enemy

look evil and bad for Russia and are shown to be very powerful. The peasants

who are being ignored in the background are there to have shown the peasants at

the time that the Bolsheviks would not have given them what they wanted. However the impression given is purely the

artist.s opinions as the cartoon was drawn in 1917 before any of the events

took place.Question 2Alexander Kerensky was the leader of the Provisional

government in 1917 at the time of the Bolshevik revolution. Source C is an

extract of an account written by him in 1932 describing what was happening at

that time. Although this evidence is quite reliable as it was written by

someone right in the middle of it all.

and can be classed as historically accurate; I would say it may be

slightly distorted because it was written years afterwards and Kerensky did not

want to go down in history as the person who failed to stop the Bolsheviks.

This means he did not want to look bad so the source is biased. He would want

to defend the policies of his provisional government and although he was the

leader and knew very well what went wrong.

I think he is making excuses for his government.For example he says; . Only armed forces by the

Bolsheviks overcame the Provisional Government.. This shows that he was biased

because there was hardly any resistance and there was no conflicts with any

armed forces. The Bolsheviks came to power because they had more to offer Russia.Kerensky tell us of .slow, but steady success..

However the statistics are against him because the number of peasant uprisings

since 1915 had quadrupled. In my opinion Kerensky was making the situation

seem much less revolutionary or serious that it realistically was. There may

have been some .success. but that really is irrelevant and overpowered by the

fact that he still failed to defeat the Bolsheviks and win the war.I don.t think source C is reliable due to the

time it was written and Kerensky concerned about his historical status. Also by

the time he wrote it, the revolution happened so long ago he thought it

probably didn.t matter what he wrote because it was indeed history. Kerensky.s

attitude and Ignorance towards the Bolsheviks also contribute to the

reliability of this source.Question 3 .In this

source Lenin shows the amount of control The Bolsheviks have over Russia and

think that they should take over the country. He says they have .support. from

the population and this is reinforced as the army have just given up their

weapons to the Red guards. Lenin thinks they should not wait for the

Constituent Assembly because it would be too late.The writers of source E think that the whole

future of the revolution and the Bolsheviks could be sacrificed and it could go

either way. Their opinions are the exact opposite to Lenin.s, according to them

the street fighting and following the revolution mood .does not exist.. However

they have no evidence to back this up unlike Lenin who did.In source F the author says that the

disagreement of

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