Weaknesses of the Tsar in 1913
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?- Created by: Charlotte O'Dwyer
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- Weaknesses of the Tsar in 1913
- Russia had been humiliated in a war with Japan, 1904
- There were many nationalities, languages and religions
- Russia was vast making the government bad
- An out-of-date farming economy. Most of the population were peasantswho lived in the country and are under the control of the nobles.
- Russia was beginning to industrialise
- Tsar Nicholas was an autocrat
- Opposition from The Kadets - middle classes and liberal landowners who wanted Russia to have a Parliament like England.
- Opposition from Social Revolutionaries - who wanted a peasant revolution
- Opposition from The Communists who were split into 2 groups- The Mensheviks and the Bolsheviks
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