LONG TERM CAUSES OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION IN 1917_1

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LONG TERM CAUSES OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION IN 1917_1
  1. The Size Of Russia
    1. Russia was basically too large for only one man to Rule
      1. Transport was difficult, only one major rail service , trans-siberian express
        1. Communication
          1. Moving supplies
          2. The autocratic government was to much work for the Tsar, he could not hadle everything
          3. In 1913 it streched 4000 miles from Europe to Alaska
            1. In 1913 Russia comprised of 125 million people
              1. Disunited- many different nationalities, languages, and religions
                1. As the Russian Empire had expanded in previous centuries many other nationalities were included
                  1. Finns, Poles, Ukrainians, Estonians, Latvians, Lithuanians, Georgians
                2. Only 55 million Russian
              2. Russia had weak military
                1. Lost war with Japan in 1904
                2. Backwards
                  1. Only 2% of country worked in industry
                    1. 80% worked in agriculture
                      1. Used Backwards methods, shunned western ideas
                        1. Most people still peasants
                          1. Huge Difference Between Rich and Poor
                            1. If a peasant had bad harvest it could mean famine and many deaths
                              1. The nobles were immensely rich, owning palaces that rivalled even that of the tsar
                          2. Demonstrated by the fact that Army commanders thought the bayonet the most important weapon
                          3. Proletariat
                            1. Russia was industrialising
                              1. People started moving to the 2 main cities. Petrograd , St.Petersberg
                                1. Workers poor and oppressed
                                2. Bloody Sunday 22nd January 1905
                                  1. Workers went on peaceful protest at the winter palace in Petrograd to ask the Tsar for changes
                                    1. Cossacks attack crowds
                                      1. Official Tsar records say 96 people dies and 333 were injured
                                        1. Anti government records estimate over 4000 deaths
                                      2. However the Tsar was not at the palace at the time when the people were protesting
                                        1. He did not give the order for the Cossacks to attack
                                          1. So not strictly his fault however people were angered by it as they saw him as a 'father' figure
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