The Downfall of the Romanovs

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  • The Downfall of the Romanovs - Causes of the 1917 Revolutions
    • 1905 Revolution
      • Causes
        • Japan War (1904)
        • Worsening industrial recession
        • Governing powers prohibited labour meetings
        • Government closed Trade Union groups
        • Bloody Sunday massacre (January 1905)
      • Consequence
        • Local activism
          • Worker's strikes
          • General protests
          • Petitions, meeting and debates
          • Some severe terrorist action
        • October Manifesto
          • Civil rights
          • Elected Duma
          • Essentially, democratic reform
    • World War One
      • Problems in Russian Military
        • Multiple defeats
        • Low morale
        • Poor decisions
          • Tsar took command, 1915
        • Anti-war propoaganda
      • Economic Crisis
        • Shortage of food
          • State requisition
          • Peasants hoarding food
        • Shortage of transport
          • Disruption to the system
          • Shortage of fuel
        • Drastic inflation
          • Increased gov. spending and borrowing
          • Increased taxation
          • 'Gold standard' abandoned
        • Decreased wages
        • Tsar took command, 1915
      • Political
        • Rasputin's interference
        • Declining respect for the Tsar
        • Unrest in the Duma
      • Social
        • Petrograd food protests and riots
        • Military desertions and mutinies
      • February revolution
        • Tsar forced to abdicate by Duma
          • Abdicated March 1917
          • Provisional Government in place
    • Tsar Nicholas II
      • Autocratic
      • Abdicated March 1917
      • Executed: January 1918
    • Opposition
      • Revolution-aries
        • Social Revolution-aries (SRs)
          • A group that attempted to assist the peasantry
            • Suffered from:
              • Associated with land reform
              • Lack of discipline
              • Party divisions
              • Extremist party members
          • Associated with land reform
        • Social Democrats (SDs)
          • Mensheviks
          • Bolsheviks
            • Lenin
              • "Bread, peace and land"
              • "All power to the Soviets"
          • Marxist Theory
    • Rasputin
      • Born: 1896
      • Mystic/faith healer
        • Cured Tsars son
      • Died: 1916
      • Trusted adviser of the Romanov family
      • Possible relationship with Tsarina Alexandra
      • Political and military interference
        • Possible relationship with Tsarina Alexandra
    • Discontent
      • Aleksander Guchkov
        • Planned military coop
        • Distrusted the Tsar
      • Russia's expansion welcomed migrant communities
        • Increased housing demand
          • Barracks and shanty towns
          • 1 room, 10 people
          • Industrial working communities
            • Soviet councils did not supply poor communities with:
              • Transport access
              • Drainage facility
                • Poor sanitation facilities = cholera and typhus cases.
                  • Pure water
                  • Transport access
                  • Sewerage facility
              • Sewerage facility
              • Pure water
        • The Russian government denied their right to belief and culture.
          • Government powers forced migrants to learn 'Russian convention'
      • Peasant communities show signs of contempt toward the government
  • Favoured moderate reform and constitutional monarchy
    • Obtobrists
    • Kadets (The Constitutional Democrats)
    • Opposition
      • Revolution-aries
        • Social Revolution-aries (SRs)
          • A group that attempted to assist the peasantry
            • Suffered from:
              • Lack of discipline
              • Party divisions
              • Extremist party members
        • Social Democrats (SDs)
          • Mensheviks
          • Bolsheviks
            • Lenin
              • "Bread, peace and land"
              • "All power to the Soviets"
          • Marxist Theory
    • Progressives
      • A group of businessmen

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