I am writing an essay, due tomorrow, on whether or not Russian workers benefitted from Bolshevik rule after 1917. My stance is that they did not benefit. I need to write an essay with five paragraphs, including an introduction, three supporting arguments (one per body paragraph) and a conclusion. I have no problem writing the actual essay, but I need some supporting arguments. Anyone have ideas?
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The Bolsheviks were the communists. They considered themselves the working class and overthrew the czar in order to create the "worker's paradise." This was going to be the world's first country founded with socialist ideals. The blue print for this was Karl Marx's "Communist Manifesto." The American founders knew that private property was essential to individual freedom and rights. “The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.†John Adams. The first plank of the Communist Manifesto called for abolition of all private property. In socialism or communism, no piece of property belongs to any one person. It is all shared. This is the most important plank of the manifesto. The other 9 planks are just the ways to make number one happen. People were fooled into believing that no property meant nothing to fight over. The government controlled things like health care and education. This seemed like a good idea in the beginning, but it soon was realized that a central government was never efficient when planning these things. In America we believe in separation of powers. The states are in control of such things or the people themselves. (see the 9th and 10th amendments). Winston Churchill said, "If you are 20 years old and you are not a socialist, you have no heart. If you are 40 years old and you are still a socialist, you have no brain." Its also interesting to note that the Communist Revolution (or Bolshevik) was funded by the richest banking families in the world. Men whose families had aquired great wealth and power funded a movement that would have nullified all of their wealth and power if it had caught on by itself. They did this in order to control their new country in its entirety from behind the scenes. That should get you started.
