Source 1 Sean McMeekin, The Russian Revolution: A New History, 2017. Like 1789, when the French Revolution erupted, 1917 has entered the lexicon of world-historical dates all educated citizens are expected to know and remember. The meaning of 1917, however, remains much contested, not least because two very different revolutions took place in Russia that fateful year. The February Revolution toppled the Russian monarchy and ushered in a brief era of mixed liberal and socialist governance, only to be superseded by the more radical October Revolution, which saw Lenin’s Bolshevik Party impose a Communist dictatorship and proclaim an open-ended world revolution against "capitalism" and "imperialism…" …Because the Bolsheviks were avowed Marxists, our understanding of the Russian Revolution has long been colored by Marxist language, from the idea of an [economic and] class struggle between "proletarians" and the "capitalist" ruling classes, to the dialectical progression from a "bourgeois" to a socialist revolution… Sheila Fitzpatrick, in an influential college textbook titled The Russian Revolution, described Lenin’s aim in the October Revolution unambiguously as "the over-throw of the bourgeoisie by the proletariat." This relatively uncritical approach to the Russian Revolution proved surprisingly resistant to revision… Not until Richard Pipes’s The Russian Revolution (1990) however, was there a serious reappraisal of the revolutions of 1917 as a whole. What happened in Red October, Pipes asserted, was not a revolution, not a mass movement from below, but a top-down coup d’état, the "capture of governmental power by a small minority." Far from being a product of social evolution, class struggle, economic development, or other inexorable historical forces foreseen in Marxist theory, the Russian Revolution was made "by identifiable men pursuing their own advantages," and was therefore "properly subject to value judgment." Pipes’s judgment of these men was withering. For this assignment you will answer the following question: Prompt: After reading source 1, write a claim that states which of the following themes, cultural interaction, political structures, economic structures, social structures, or human-environment interaction is the most important in the history of the Russian Revolution? Why