Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Impact of WWI
- The Tsar's Downfall
- His actions
- September 1915 – The Tsar went to the
front to take personal charge
- Held responsible for defeats
- Left the Tsarina and Rasputin in charge
- Rejecting the Duma and maintaining autocracy
- Refused requests from the
Progressive Bloc
- Rasputin + Tsarina
- Put in charge by the Tsar whilst he
was away at the front
- Dismissed able ministers in favour of their
friends who performed poorly
- Changed
ministers often
- Totally
discredited and
ridiculed
- Tsar blamed for putting them in charge
- Dismissed the Progressive Bloc
- Thought that the ZEMGOR and the War Industries committee were disloyal
- Military Failures
- Heavy defeats, lots of Russians killed in 1914 and 1915
- Disillusion and anger about the way the
Tsar and the Government conducted
the War
- September 1915 – went to the
Front to take charge – held
personally responsible for
defeats
- 1.8million soldier deaths
- 1.7million civilian deaths
- 4.9million casualties
- Conditions in Russia
- Acute distress in large cities
- Disruption of supplies
- Food, goods and raw materials in
short supply
- Hundreds of factories closed down
- Thousands of jobs lost
- Prices rocketed =
high inflation
- Lack of fuel
- National budget rose eightfold
- Higher taxes, loans and
borrowing from Britain and
France
- Prices rising 200% between August 1914 and Christmas 1916
- Moscow went from
receiving 2200 wagons of
grain per month to 300