Russia in early 1917
- Created by: Matilda120
- Created on: 03-11-21 19:20
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- Key Topic 1
- Tsarist Russia
- Tsar Nicholas 2 was an autocrat
- Okhrana exiled/imprisoned opposition
- Secret Police
- Cossacks used violence against protests/strike
- Russian Soldiers
- big divides in class, culture, geography.
- Peasants Lives
- Poor living/working conditions
- Trade unions were forbidden
- Organisations to protect/fight for workers rights
- Moved to cities due to industrialisation 1914
- Reasons for opposition
- 1905 Revolution- Unhappy about violence
- Bloody Sunday
- Political groups- Parties against autocracy
- Mensheviks- (Trotsky) believed lots belonged to party and change was slow
- Bolsheviks- (Lenin) believed few important people lead revolution
- Socialist Revolutionaries-(Kerensky) revolution of peasants, use terror
- Rasputin- had to much influence over tsar and tsarina
- 1905 Revolution- Unhappy about violence
- Impacts of WW1
- Political
- didn't trust Tsarina due to german blood
- Felt Rasputin had control over royal family
- Social
- food shortages in cities due to lack of transport
- clothes decreased during cold winters
- economic
- Factories closed--> unemployment
- Massive inflation
- Political
- Why so many defeats
- Lack of Infrastructure
- Outdated systems
- many orders didn't arrive
- Germans intercept wireless messages
- Outdated systems
- Poor leadership
- Generals lazy + arrogant
- No teamwork
- Tsar
- 1916 Chief-in-command
- people blamed him
- Lack of Infrastructure
- 1917 Revolution
- ends Tsar rule
- worker strike for higher wages
- Army refused to put down strike by force
- Provisional Government created
- Dual power
- Petrograd Soviet -elected council of workers
- Dual power
- Petrograd Soviet -elected council of workers
- Tsarist Russia
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