Russia on the eve of WWI
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- Created on: 22-04-14 19:56
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- Russia on the Eve of WWI
- Bourgeoisie (middle class)
- Concerned about peasants and lower classes taking power
- Angry about Duma
- frustrated about lack of reforms
- Liberals become more outspoken about the Tsar and the Duma
- Growing in size, wanting more of a say
- Making money from growing industry
- Government
- Reaping benefits of economic boom
- Didn't think working class or peasants seemed like a threat
- Duma had lost all power
- Government were loyal to the tsar
- Liberals,more the octoberists, were loyal but beginning to question the tsar
- 1913 Guchkov (octoberists) criticises the tsar about what he was doing to the govt, promises of 1905 were broken
- Proletariat (working class)
- rise in strikes-unhappy
- Bread and butter issues -low pay and bad living/working conditions
- Moscow and St Petersburg were overpopulated
- Strain on resources -food, sanitation and hospitals
- On verge of revolution
- July 1914-Strike in St Petersburg supported by Bolsheviks
- Only supported by Bolsheviks, little support from elsewhere
- Peasants
- Stolypins land reforms: modernisation, freedom, more efficient farming..moving forward
- Grain production rising
- 1909-13 exceptional harvests
- Bigger demand for food for growing population- pressure
- Less peasants as they were moving to become middle class
- Becoming more assertive in their rights
- Bourgeoisie (middle class)
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