The Russian Revolution And World War I

The Russian Revolution was a series of two revolutions that consisted of the February Revolution and the October Revolution. The February Revolution of March 8th, 1917 was a revolution targeted and successfully removed Czar Nicholas II from power. The February Revolution first began to take place when strikes and public protests between 1916 and early 1917 started occurring. These strikes were created to protest against and to blame Czar Nicholas II for Russia’s poor performance in WWI and severe food shortages that the country facing. Soon, violence between protesters and authorities began to escalate, and on February 24th, 1917 in the city of Petrograd, hundreds of thousands of male and female workers flooded the streets. They all had the same purpose which was to protest against the “Great War” and the monarchy. The protests began to escalate and the vastly outnumbered police were unable to control the crowds. When news of the unrest reached the czar, he ordered the military to put an end to the riots by the next day, and on February 26th, 1917, several troops of a local guard regiment fired upon the crowds, but however many soldiers felt pity and empathy for the protesters than the czar, and on the next day, more than 80,000 soldiers join the protest even directly fighting the police.

In 1917 Russia was the most populous country and also the largest in the entire world yet, Russia's government was facing many problems that needed to be resolved such as a shortage of food and fuel.At this time, Russia was also only starting the process of industrialization when it had entered into World War One, both of these and demand some kind of change from it. The Tsarist government started to collapse and the entire country was ready for some kind of change. The Russian government could not fix any of these problems and this made the people want change.Two causes of the Bolshevik revolution were, food and fuel shortages coupled with World War One going very poorly for Russia

The Russian Revolution of 1917 was a result of four events: The Revolution of 1905, WWI, Marxism, and Marxist- Leninism. Each event contributed in different ways to the beginning of a new Russian Era.

Compare to it revolution is something “an end of government or social order, in favour for new system”. In commencement Russia was ruled by the cruel Czar Nicholas II. First the major event of Russian Revolution was the February Revolution

The Russian Revolution began in 1917.Russia was an overwhelming population. Russia had a lot of peasants in poverty at the time. “The Russian revolution had happened in two stages the February and one in October” according to (spark notes). During the revolution the factory workers in 1905 wrote a petition to Tsar about working conditions but the 100 men and women where left bleeding in the snow due to tsar

The Russian Revolution was one of the most tragic and painful wars in all history, people got injured, lost there families and the people only started this revolution because they were not earning the right they had. They were not being treated right. They were treated as if they were insignificant people, and that did not matter at all. Many people died unfairly and others just were punished for what they did. The rulers during the revolution were known as Csar or Tsar. Since they were the ones that were ruling, they had the power, absolute power. The Russian Revolution had from five to six reasons or causes. One of the main causes was the same cause as the French Revolution: Absolute Monarchism.

There are hundreds of events which occurred over a long period of time that could have been the cause of the 1917 Russian Revolution. Most of these events would have played at least a small part in the creation of the revolution although the real question is which events were the most significant or had the most impact on the forming of it. After researching the various events that could have been the main cause I found that the most significant causes of the 1917 Russian Revolution were the famine in the cities, the Tsar’s failure to take action and the lack of improvement for the working class citizens after the 1905 Revolution.

The Russian Revolution is one where they had two before power was overthrown. The first revolution in February overthrew the government they had in place and the second one in November which placed the Bolsheviks. It all started when angry citizens were mad at the way the Russians were defeated in World War 1. Day after day, poorly led Russian armies were demolished by the Germans. This showed Russian citizens two things that would spark revolutionary thoughts in their mind: 1) Russian armies could never compete with Eastern countries and 2) war destroyed their economy.

The years leading up to the Russian revolution consisted of many wars. These wars required a lot out of the Russian government and the Russian people, especially considering they lost all but one of the wars. With depleted resources from the war efforts, many people became poor, jobless, and hungry. On March 8, 1917, a riot broke out in the city of Petrograd (History.com Staff). The riot was started by women hope for more bread; however, this riot sparked a revolution throughout the country. Within the next few days Tsar Nicholas II, Russia’s leader, stepped down, and the country then became divided between two parties.

The First world was a key factor for the uprise of the February revolution, it reflected on Russia’s disorganisation. The poorly led army was scarcely equipped; at least one-third of solders had no rifles. Food, and clothing supplies were limited, but organisation of food in the cities was considerably worse. The food for the solders were prioritised over the people in the cities but World War 1 only added to the stress, food production and delivery was halted due to Russia’s lack of modernised infrastructure and functional transport at a time of such an outrageous demand. The tsar’s demand for men removed skilled workers from farms, railways and other important industries that were much needed at the time, ultimately aggravating poor harvest

First, the peasants that made up the majority of the Russian population. They were incredibly poor, and there was barely enough food produced from the harvest to survive on. This was compounded by the fact that there was a large population

Russia, 1917, they have Nicholas II as their Tsar, Russian are losing hope in their leader, and they want change. Russia’s economic system was bad, their government was corrupting and the Duma, their parliament, was slowing going away. The main cause of their revolution was their involvement in WWI, Russia came nowhere close to the industrialized Germany, so they had an extremely weak military compared to them, leaving them with a great loss of men. WWI had them in an economic crisis with the cost of war efforts. It starts with the February Revolution, in St. Petersburg, workers were throwing strikes in the street, destroying police stations and going against the policies requests to leave, so they take open fire at the crowd killing them.

The Russian revolution was caused by its bad leadership, of its tsar Nicholas ii. Russia was going into World War 1 untrained and poorly equipped men. Farmers were being taken away to serve their country; with the farmers away food shortages began to put strain on the government. He was later effected the economy, land area (specifically where food was grown) and transport in and out of Russia. All of this lead up to the revolution of 1917.this was the dark times for Russia.

The Russian Revolution have many important stages that are distinct from one another, From the Tsar to the Provisional Government to the Communist. It all happened in 1914, World War I is booming in Europe, a perfect opportunity for Russia’s rotting society. War makes the Russian people forget about the disputes that the Tsar failed to resolve. And so the Tsar dragged his people to war with Germany. At first, Russia was seemingly to be successful, but the Russian army with bad leadership from the incompetent generals have caused them major defeats against the German. Morale was low and to combat this, Tsar Nicholas himself went to the battlefield and leave his wife in charge of the nation back home. People of all class heavily reject this

A revolution is something that’s very common in history of any country. The only thing that separates a Revolution is the difference in reason and purpose of settling a dispute between either a country or a city. In Russian History there was a revolution that set a new standard of fighting for a new rule. This Russian Revolution took place from March 1917 until November 1917 in the Russian Empire. The Russian people were tired of the imperial power of Tsarist leaders and they wanted to overthrow power. Two films made in 1925 portrayed the Revolution through silent films Battleship Potemkin and Aelita: Queen of Mars. Both films were produced mainly for showing the people what was going on in society. This form of entertainment was highly recommended because of the lack of the Television and Radio production during the time.