Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Region: Russia, McGill University, course: Soviet Studies and Socialism, language: English, abstract: Understanding social revolutions often require a thorough literature review and comparative theoretical analysis. This research provides an in-depth historical overview of the socio-economic challenges in tsarist Russia and proposes to analyze the Bolshevik Revolution by using a structural and rational approach to the uprising of the Soviets and consolidation of socialism.