Zusammenfassung der Ressource
LONG TERM CAUSES OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION IN 1917_1
- The Size Of Russia
- Russia was basically too large for only one man to Rule
- Transport was difficult, only one major rail service , trans-siberian express
- Communication
- Moving supplies
- The autocratic government was to much work for the Tsar, he could not hadle everything
- In 1913 it streched
4000 miles from Europe
to Alaska
- In 1913 Russia comprised of 125 million people
- Disunited- many different nationalities, languages, and religions
- As the Russian Empire had
expanded in previous
centuries many other
nationalities were included
- Finns, Poles, Ukrainians, Estonians, Latvians, Lithuanians, Georgians
- Only 55 million Russian
- Russia had weak military
- Lost war with Japan in 1904
- Backwards
- Only 2% of country worked in industry
- 80% worked in agriculture
- Used Backwards methods, shunned western ideas
- Most people still peasants
- Huge Difference Between Rich and Poor
- If a peasant had bad
harvest it could mean
famine and many deaths
- The nobles were immensely rich, owning palaces that rivalled even that of the tsar
- Demonstrated by the fact that Army commanders thought the bayonet the most important weapon
- Proletariat
- Russia was industrialising
- People started moving to the 2 main cities. Petrograd , St.Petersberg
- Workers poor and oppressed
- Bloody Sunday 22nd January 1905
- Workers went on peaceful protest at the winter palace in Petrograd to ask the Tsar for changes
- Cossacks attack crowds
- Official Tsar records say 96 people dies and 333 were injured
- Anti government records estimate over 4000 deaths
- However the Tsar was not at the palace at the time when the people were protesting
- He did not give the order for the Cossacks to attack
- So not strictly his fault however people were angered by it as they saw him as a 'father' figure
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