The film “Dr. Zhivago” was very powerful in its depiction of the Russian Revolution. Russian’s wanted change. They didn’t like the unfair rulings of czars. Widespread inflation and food shortages in Russia contributed largely into the Revolution. In the beginning of the film, you saw an important event in the Russian Revolution known as “Bloody Sunday”. “Bloody Sunday” happened on January 22, 1905, when peaceful demonstrators who were marching to present a petition to the czar, Nicholas II, were gunned down by the Imperial Guard. “Bloody Sunday” and the development of revolutionary ideas and movements led to the Russian Revolution. Going more into the film, you saw that the Russian’s began to leave their stations on the Eastern Front and return back home. They saw no point in fighting a losing battle. When Doctor Yuri Zhivago, also a poet, went back home to Moscow, he saw the dramatic changes. His home used to be his own, but after the Russian Revolution and the following of communism, seven families shared his home with him, and his personal belongings were taken away from him. Communism is a classless society in which capitalism is overthrown by a working class revolution that gives ownership control of wealth and property to the government. That basically means that everything was owned by the government and no matter how hard or little you worked, everyone made the same amount of income. Everything was “fair”, in a sense. Dr. Zhivago was surprised to see so many people in his home. Due to communism, many people starved or froze to death. Dr. Zhivago had to go out and pull wood out of a fence to keep his family warm. That was against the belief of communism.