Russia
- Created by: Rachel Gilpin
- Created on: 19-04-17 11:16
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- Russia
- February revolution
- After year of poor harvests and food shortages - confidence in Tsar was waning
- Rasputin and monarchy blamed
- Rasputin murdered in effort to save monarchy
- 24 hour queuing for bread
- Bread rationing
- Food shortrages made Tasr unpopular with all classes
- Rasputin and monarchy blamed
- Series of strikes and revolts in Petrograd by industrial workers
- "Hooligans" - Tsarina
- Began on international women's day - peaceful demonstration turned into marched against regime
- Involved the deaths of over 1,000 citizens at the hands of the Tsar's army
- Made people more hostile
- Eventual unification of all the classes
- Support of people was essential for Tsar to remain in power - had lost people's support
- After year of poor harvests and food shortages - confidence in Tsar was waning
- Tsar
- Lacked understanding for needs of people
- Anti-sematic
- Prejudice against non-Russians
- Lack of military leadership
- Embarrassing war efforts
- Russo-Japan war lost
- However he made apathetic attempts to benefit his people
- But wasn't enough
- Lac ked skills to act effectively in role as Tsar
- Well educated but "Unfit to run a village post office" - one of own ministers
- loving father and husband
- Deeply religious and mralistic
- Assumed strict hierarchy with only one leader - himself
- Considered it his birth right
- Arch-conservative
- Stoylpin attempted to modernise Russia but Tsar prevented much of this
- Well educated but "Unfit to run a village post office" - one of own ministers
- Lack of empathy
- Carried on celebrating after over 1400 people were killed at his accession celebrations
- Autocratic
- Lacked understanding for needs of people
- Effect of WW1
- War acted as catalyst
- Gorlic-Tarnow
- Tsar became Commander in chief of war effort
- Now solely blamed for failure and suffering of people
- Alexander accused of German spy + Pornographic images relased of her and Rasputin
- February revolution
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