Causes of the February Revolution 1917
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- Causes of the February Revolution 1917.
- The First World War.
- Defeats at Tannenburg and Masurian Lakes 1914.
- Ammunition Shortages.
- Nearly 4 million, dead, wounded, captured or missing after the first year.
- Actions of the Tsar.
- Complete autocracy, would not allow thw Duma to take control.
- Made himself commander-in-chief of the armed forces.
- Decision to join the war. Great military programme not to be complete until 1917.
- Russia.
- Peasant farmers conscripted, farming was left to women and the elderly.
- Shortage of food. Grain hoarding by peasants.
- Wages risen by 200% but food rose by 400%
- Railway network collapsed.
- Petrograd and Moscow only getting 1/3 of their food requirements.
- Economic Factors.
- Government relied on imports.
- Fuel shortages.
- Inflation, the governement was printing more money than it's reserves could support.
- The Tsarina and Rasputin.
- Frequent changing of ministers. "Ministerial leap frog." Between 1915-1917 -4 Prime Ministers, -3 Ministers of War.
- Politically inept. "A will of iron linked to not much brain."
- Political Impact.
- WICs - War Industry Committes - Committees of representatives of both employers and workers to help sort out supply problems in the economy during the war.
- Zemgor - A body made up of representatives from town councils and zemstovs to help co-ordinate tasks useful to the war effort.
- The First World War.
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