unfit to govern
Unfit to Govern “Fit to govern! No, not to live!——O nation miserable, With an untitled tyrant bloody-scepter'd, When shalt thou see thy wholesome days again, Since that the truest issue of thy throne By his own interdiction stands accurs'd And does blaspheme his breed?(Shakespeare).” This quote by Macduff reveals that the tyrant Macbeth is not competent of ruling Scotland and has left the citizens yearning for the prosperity in which their country once lived in. Throughout history, there has been a plethora of leaders unfit to govern the land in which they are suppose to. When this unfortunate situation occurs, the duty of overthrowing their own country’s leadership falls into the hands of the citizens. This process is known as a revolution. A revolution can be defined simply as “a change.” When a country undergoes a revolution, its ideals it once believed are being modified. Almost every nation in the world has experienced a revolution at one point or another. There are many different kinds of revolutions. Some may be peaceful, some short lasting, some pointless, and others extremely destructive. Some, like the events depicted in Macbeth, may be swift and involve a small group of leaders overthrowing another. Yet others, like the Russian Revolution, may occur over a long period of time and consist of many bloody revolts and civil war. The Russian Revolution was a series of events that swept across Russia overthrowing the Czarist leadership and dramatically changing one of the worlds largest countries. This episode would lay the foundation in which the country would be ruled for the majority of the twentieth century. The process of overthrowing leadership and bringing prosperity to a country is shown through the causes, the actions, and the results of the Russian Revolution. Revolutions can be the result of many years of citizens living in hardship because their country’s government is unable to take care of them. For 300 years, the small Russian ruling class led lives of splendor and riches, while the country’s common people suffered in a harsh society under czarist rule. The beginning of the Russian Revolution started with the end of the Crimean war in 1855(A Concise History). Even though Russians had been living in poverty for years, this is when they started to realize that a revolution needed to take place. Autocratic and repressive czarist regimes ruled Russia for centuries while most of the citizens lived under severe economic and social conditions(Russian Revolution of). The Russian countryside would soon be in turmoil due to these conditions. At the turn of the twentieth century, Russia underwent changes which would eventually lead to a revolution. In 1904, a war erupted between Japan and Russia over the lands of Manchuria and Korea. This war ended with a humiliating defeat for the Russians(The Russian Revolution). Often, wars point out weaknesses in a country’s ruling government. The Russo-Japenese war set the stage for a revolution to take place the following year(The Russian Revolution). Because of the war, Russians revolted in 1905.