French Revolution VS Russian Revolution

The French and Russian revolutions were really very similar in their natures.  Both began as a revolution led by the bourgeoisie against a despotic monarchy and degenerated into a bloody regime headed by representatives of the peasantry.  Both revolutions murdered their respective monarchs well after they had ceased to be a threat to the Revolution.  Both had egalitarian and communist elements to  the peasant revolution and both killed thousands of innocent people.  The French revolution resulted in a vacuum that allowed Napoleon Bonaparte to become a dictator and the Russian Revolution allowed Lenin to become dictator.

These two revolutions occured because 1. they both had a bad economoy 2. they had a bad government/leadership. However similar they were during the revolutions the outcome was totally different. As one can see one is democratic and the other is communist. The french came up with the Declaration of the rights of man and the Russians came up with lenin.

The russians and french both hated their governments and showed hostility to aristocracy. They both wanted more land, wealth and freedom that the governement was not giving to them. So they had to take it. 

There are many parallels between the French and Russian Revolutions. The elements in the cause were:

-an unfair social heirachy

-The absolute autocratic system that allowed no political share of power

-The economic and social strain of war (WWI and the Russo-Japanese war in Russia, and the Seven Years War and The War of Independance in France)

-Influence of Queen (Tsarina Alexandra and Marie Antionette. Both were from previously enemy countries and both influenced the actions of their husband)

-The majority poverty stricken population (some 97% in France and between 83-93% in Russia)

-Both Louis XVI and Nicholas II weren't interested in becoming king

-unfair taxation system, with the poorest people paying the most and the richest being exempt from taxation

-and most importantly, the rise of revolution in both countries was due to the lack of action taken to address these factors