Similarities Differences Both were fuelled by the lack of food, broken promises and were anti-war The government wasn’t doing a good job and Russia was in a bad state beforehand The army was uprising in both revolutions Firearms were used in both the revolutions Those in power gave it up without a fight – the Tsar abdicated and the Provisional Gov. surrendered Revolution was the obvious result in each case as the conditions were so bad – people were desperate in March and Lenin had already tried to cause a revolution in April The November Rev. was less bloody and didn’t last as long as the March Rev. The March Rev. wasn’t done by revolutionaries but the workers and soldiers unlike the November Rev. The March Rev. ended autocracy whereas the November Rev. was the start of autocracy again in the form of communism In the March Rev. the firearms used had ammunition whereas in the November Rev. had blanks The March Rev. wasn’t planned or organized whereas the November Rev. was planned There was absolutely no order in the March Rev. but the November Rev. was full of order and control over firearms, etc.

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Both were fuelled by the lack of food, broken promises and were anti-war

The government wasn’t doing a good job and Russia was in a bad state beforehand

The army was uprising in both revolutions

Firearms were used in both the revolutions

Those in power gave it up without a fight – the Tsar abdicated and the Provisional Gov. surrendered

Revolution was the obvious result in each case as the conditions were so bad – people were desperate in March and Lenin had already tried to cause a revolution in April

The November Rev. was less bloody and didn’t last as long as the March Rev.

The March Rev. wasn’t done by revolutionaries but the workers and soldiers unlike the November Rev.

The March Rev. ended autocracy whereas the November Rev. was the start of autocracy again in the form of communism

In the March Rev. the firearms used had ammunition whereas in the November Rev. had blanks

The March Rev. wasn’t planned or organized whereas the November Rev. was planned

There was absolutely no order in the March Rev. but the November Rev. was full of order and control over firearms, etc.