Causes for The February Revolution 1917
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- Created on: 25-03-23 14:45
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- The February Revolution 1917 - Causes
- Economic Problems
- Increase in national debt, foreign investors less likely to invest
- Poor communication and transport hindered in towns and cities
- 300% rise in cost for living
- Spending increased to 14.5 million by 1918
- Industrialisation
- Factories + transport systems turned towards war effort
- Poland + other industrial areas taken over by Germany
- WWI confirmed how behind Russia was in industry
- Foreign loans/investments stopped during WWI
- Transport = inefficent
- Opposition
- Opp to Tsar increased
- army - poor equipment, ammunition + tactics
- revolutionary groups
- Duma - demanded a constitutional monarchy
- Workers increased and resulted in strikes
- Economic Problems
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