While the Mexican and Russian revolutions had similar end goals and the process in which they carried out their uprisings that sparked the peasant revolutions; the main differences lie in who started the revolutions and what political systems they adopted after their revolutions ended. The Mexican Revolution of 1910 and the Russian Revolution of 1917 began with similar goals: freedom from a society unrepresentative of the people. The Mexican Revolution wanted to get rid of the dictator Porfirio Díaz and therefore had large peasant armies led by Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata in early 1910. In comparison, Russia wanted to break out of the limiting rule of the Tsar's political reforms where even the privileged did not have not been able to benefit from representation within the government. The Russian and Mexican revolutions differed in the ideas they adopted, but they were similar in the way they achieved their goals and sparked their uprisings. The Russian Revolution was designed with the goal of creating an egalitarian government based on the principles of Karl Marx's socialism. In short, t...