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    • 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
      • 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
    • 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
      • Lack of empathy
        • Carried on celebrating after over 1400 people were killed at his accession celebrations
        • Autocratic
    • 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

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