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Pre-revolutionary government and society provided the appropriate factors to bring the nations of France and Russia to revolution. To say that they provided the necessary ferment we must analyse society and government in their own right to reveal the pressures that were placed upon the people of both nations through society's structure and autocratic nature of their rulers. The parallels we can draw between the French revolution of 1789 and the Russian revolt beginning in 1881 are …

…working class were responsible for the push for revolution, the government and society provided the necessary ferment to bring the public to the brink. Combined with other factors which put extended pressure on the peasants and working class, such as the famine (which may be related to the privileges of the nobles) the way life was and the way they where expected to live was more the enough to provide the appropriate scene for revolution.