Answer the following question in a blog POST: Strayer asserts that the Russian revolutionaries took the French Revolution of 1789 as their model; to what extent is this true? Reference specific facts and concepts from each revolution to defend your answer.
The Russian revolutionaries may have taken a few ideas from the French revolution, but they did not model their uprising around it.
Many of the peasant rebellions were against bosses, overlords, and similar figures, in an attempt to gain greater rights and more equality, similar to in the French revolution. However, it would be nearly impossible to find any major uprising in which people did not mass together and attack those above them, because you only rebel when you are unhappy, and in general, it is either correct or easiest to blame those more powerful than you. It is entirely possible that any similarities between the two revolutions were entirely coincidences due to the nature of rebellions.
In any case, the Russian revolutionaries would not have wanted their evolution to have the same outcome as the French revolution. While the French did achieve greater equality and democracy for a short time, they lost their power to Napoleon relatively quickly. Any self-respecting rebel (perhaps excluding anarchists) wants not only to gain power, but to keep it. By the mere fact that communism stayed in Russia, it is apparent that they did not try to match their revolution to France's, and if anything learned from others mistakes.
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