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Bryan Cleaver
Mrs. Aguilar
April 4, 2011
region of the world and had many different factions contributing to its
Anarchists.
would eventually replace the Tsarist regime that had ruled for
The book argues that the working class should overthrow the tsarist
1917 opened the many and wide spread discontents were caught up in
and swept away the imperial regime.” (Ziegler 29) The Petrograd
workers from over a hundred factories, nearly half of the work force,
worker population was now rioting in the streets (Wade 23). The riots
(Philips). There was now nothing available for the workers and students
(Ruppert). Nicholas the 2nd called in the army to quell the protesters
so deserted their posts, went into hiding, or joined the protesters in the
streets (Barbour 38). The soldiers were reluctant to fire into the crowds
because a large amount of women took part in the protests (Wade 34).
“At about eight am on the twenty seventh when the officers arrived to
The soldiers were not happy with the direction the war was taking and
Russian army rebelling and giving up their support for the tsarist
reached the exiled Russian anarchists in the west, they responded with
Russia Anarchism were Volin and Roshin (Arvich 40). The Anarchists
were a subset of the socialists (Arvich 45). They believed that the
wealth between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie (Arvich 39). It was
for the laboring proletariat who have been eternal slaves in the vice
like grip of the world wide bourgeoisie” (Ziegler 37). The Russian
anarchists like Volin and Roshchin were academics, and though they
led to a change in power from Tsar Nicolas the 2nd to the new Bolshevik
with military backing, and the Russian anarchists who, through their
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