Why did the Tsar's rule end? -1917
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- Why did the Tsar's rule end? -1917
- Impact of WW1
- HUGE defeat - unequipped no food no boots. MASURIAN LAKES
- At first, patriotic. Then Tsar took over army
- All transport used for army, so none left for food to cities
- Peasants away fighting - no food grown
- Many thought Tsar was responsible for killing young mn
- Russian society 1914
- Big empire, small army, culture clash, comms. hard
- 80% peasant backward bad living/working conditions
- NEW workers - worse l/w conditions. No rights, but no protests- far apart, illiterate
- IR - catch up with Europe. Cities grew, made bourgeoisie
- Peasants & army still loyal to Tsar
- Background 1904-1914
- Russ-Japan war 1905 - defeat in 45 mins - humiliated
- Bloody Sunday - ppl went to ask Tsar for help, Cossacks killed 100's unarmed. Army revolts, peasants lose faith
- Oc. Manifesto 1905 = Dumas, free speech, legal pol. parties
- Stolypin - killed everyone. Stol's Tie = noose
- May 1906 - Rev. crushed, dumas restricted
- Rasputin - cured Alexei but ppl didn't even know he was ill so were suspicious of his total power over Tsars
- Tsar's govt. 1914
- Tsar was weak, paranoid, easily manipulated, stubborn, & didn't want to be Tsar
- Mir (country) & Zemstvo (town) set up reluctantly
- Tsar controlled army (poorly) alone
- Okrhana & arbitrary arrest
- The Romanovs
- Bread Riots Mar 1917 250000 on strike, + army. By 12th - Petro. Soviet had stepped in + Nick abdicated on the 15th
- Tsarina + Ras? She was German
- Ras. HATED by everyone, so Tsar left him in charge - Mad Monk
- Opposition groups
- Cadets - lib. middle class, wanted queen + PM like UK
- SD Bolsheviks (Lenin) small membership, only 1 party needed for revolution
- SD Menshevik (Martov) lots of members, will work with other parties to revolt, violent
- SRs - wanted revolution + abolish land ownerships - radical, assassinated 2000+, incl Phleve.
- Impact of WW1
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