How far was WW1 the main cause of the fall of the Romanovs in Feb 1917
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- How far was ww1 the main cause of the fall of the Romanovs in Feb 1917
- Long term weaknesses
- tsar listened to his wife too much-weak-german too so bad look
- didn't listen to people/gave them political freedom
- lacked strong government
- constant disorganisation of the state
- WW1
- Food became scarce-Inflation-strikes for flour and sugar
- Peasants sons rarely returned from the front- 80% of pop so need to keep happy- could not plough, sow or bring in the harvests as the young men were off fighting in the war- still heavily in debt after the emancipation of the serfs- had to buy their freedom over 50 years, and many were still serfs
- Russian army lost 2 and half million men
- Workers in cities worked very long hours for very little pay
- lived in dormitories as house building had not kept pace with demand
- Tsar took personal command of the army after its terrible start to the war- he was as inept as a military leader, and many blamed him for Russia's disasrous campaigns
- heighten discontent throughout society enough for it to revolt
- loss of traditional supporters
- people of higher class started to declare that the Duma should make the Tsar abdicate
- Strengths of revolutionary groups
- Mensheviks gaining support as there were more problems and people knew that the M could help deal with them and start a rev
- Communism along with many other radical ideologies flourished in Imperial Russia
- Lenin's Bolsheviks found that after the February Revolution they could dominate the soviets and began to push for ALL power to be held by the soviets, rather than the Provisional Government
- Mistakes of the Tsar
- didn't prepare for war-transport issues
- commander in chief-responsible for deaths
- Didn't grant political freedom-this had been asked for so long
- Leaving wife and Rasputin in charge-responsible-Rasputin already had bad reputation
- Bloody Sunday and 1905 Revolution
- Shattered the image of the Tsar as a caring father figure
- Portrayed the leadership as being ruthless, uncaring and unsympathetic
- Political concessions that resulted from the Revolution were minimal in reality-Duma had its powers limited by the Fundamental Laws and uncooperative assemblies were dismissed by the Tsar
- Rapid Industrialisation
- these factories and mines were worked by peasants straight from the countryside
- The wages were poor
- no labour unions and living conditions were atrocious
- Hot-bunking was common in the dormitories- and radical politics found that a healthy breeding ground
- Long term weaknesses
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