Laws of the Russian Revolution
Central Historical Question:
Who will benefit most from the laws made as the result of the Russian Revolution; the capitalists, the common people, or the government?
Comrade Lenin sweeps way the imperialists, capitalists, and Boyars
Who will benefit most from the laws made as the result of the Russian Revolution; the capitalists, the common people, or the government?
Comrade Lenin sweeps way the imperialists, capitalists, and Boyars
Document #1 Manifesto of the Communist Party, 1848 edited
The aim of the Communists is the formation of the proletariat into a class and the overthrow of the bourgeois. Communism will abolish bourgeois property. Communism will end the system of producing and appropriating products that is based on class antagonisms, on the exploitation of the many by the few.
Who will benefit most from the laws made as the result of the Russian Revolution; the capitalists, the common people, or the government?
Document #2 The First Provisional Government Izvestiia, March 1917 edited
The State Government, with the help and the support of the army and the inhabitants of the capital, have won over the dark forces of the old regime. It is now possible for the Committee organize of a more stable executive power.
The actual work of the cabinet will be guided by the following principles:
1. Complete amnesty for all cases of political and religious nature.
2. Freedom of speech, press, and assembly, and the right to form unions and to strike and the extension of political freedom.
3. The abolition of all restrictions based on class, religion, and nationality.
4. The immediate arrangements for universal, equal and direct suffrage and secret ballot, to determine the government and the constitution.
5. The substitution of a people's militia for the police, with elective officers responsible to the organs of local self-government.
6. Elections to the organs of local self-government are to be held on the basis of universal, equal and direct suffrage and secret ballot.
7. Those military units which took part in the revolutionary movement shall be neither disarmed nor withdrawn from Petrograd.
Who will benefit most from the laws made as the result of the Russian Revolution; the capitalists, the common people, or the government?
Doc #3 The Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic Constitution The Declaration of the Rights of the Laboring and Exploited People 1918 edited
Chapter One
1. Russia is declared to be a republic of the Soviets of Workers’, Soldiers’, and Peasants. All central and local power belongs to these soviets.
Chapter Two
(a) Private property land is abolished; land is now national property and will be shared between farmers without payment to the former owners.
(b) All forests, treasures of the earth, waters, all equipment, farms and agricultural enterprises, are declared to be national property.
(c) All factories, mills, mines, railways, and other means of production and transportation belong to the workers to insure the power of the workers.
(e) To liberate the toiling masses from the yoke of capital ownership of all banks are transferred to the Worker’s and Peasants’ Government.
(f) Universal obligation to work is introduced to help eliminate the parasitic strata of society and organize the economic life of the country
(g) For the purpose of securing the working class’ complete power, and to eliminate all possibility being exploited again, all workers can be armed and the Red Army be organized and the propertied class disarmed.
Chapter 3
4. In its resolve to liberate mankind from the grip of capital and imperialism, the Soviet Government will work to organize all the workers and peasants of the world into a democratic peace based on the free determination of peoples.
Who will benefit most from the laws made as the result of the Russian Revolution; the capitalists, the common people, or the government?
The aim of the Communists is the formation of the proletariat into a class and the overthrow of the bourgeois. Communism will abolish bourgeois property. Communism will end the system of producing and appropriating products that is based on class antagonisms, on the exploitation of the many by the few.
Who will benefit most from the laws made as the result of the Russian Revolution; the capitalists, the common people, or the government?
Document #2 The First Provisional Government Izvestiia, March 1917 edited
The State Government, with the help and the support of the army and the inhabitants of the capital, have won over the dark forces of the old regime. It is now possible for the Committee organize of a more stable executive power.
The actual work of the cabinet will be guided by the following principles:
1. Complete amnesty for all cases of political and religious nature.
2. Freedom of speech, press, and assembly, and the right to form unions and to strike and the extension of political freedom.
3. The abolition of all restrictions based on class, religion, and nationality.
4. The immediate arrangements for universal, equal and direct suffrage and secret ballot, to determine the government and the constitution.
5. The substitution of a people's militia for the police, with elective officers responsible to the organs of local self-government.
6. Elections to the organs of local self-government are to be held on the basis of universal, equal and direct suffrage and secret ballot.
7. Those military units which took part in the revolutionary movement shall be neither disarmed nor withdrawn from Petrograd.
Who will benefit most from the laws made as the result of the Russian Revolution; the capitalists, the common people, or the government?
Doc #3 The Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic Constitution The Declaration of the Rights of the Laboring and Exploited People 1918 edited
Chapter One
1. Russia is declared to be a republic of the Soviets of Workers’, Soldiers’, and Peasants. All central and local power belongs to these soviets.
Chapter Two
(a) Private property land is abolished; land is now national property and will be shared between farmers without payment to the former owners.
(b) All forests, treasures of the earth, waters, all equipment, farms and agricultural enterprises, are declared to be national property.
(c) All factories, mills, mines, railways, and other means of production and transportation belong to the workers to insure the power of the workers.
(e) To liberate the toiling masses from the yoke of capital ownership of all banks are transferred to the Worker’s and Peasants’ Government.
(f) Universal obligation to work is introduced to help eliminate the parasitic strata of society and organize the economic life of the country
(g) For the purpose of securing the working class’ complete power, and to eliminate all possibility being exploited again, all workers can be armed and the Red Army be organized and the propertied class disarmed.
Chapter 3
4. In its resolve to liberate mankind from the grip of capital and imperialism, the Soviet Government will work to organize all the workers and peasants of the world into a democratic peace based on the free determination of peoples.
Who will benefit most from the laws made as the result of the Russian Revolution; the capitalists, the common people, or the government?