was forced to go to bed cause my sister wanted to sleep
plus, i was hungry and was lazy to get food ):
so anyway, i've finished studying:
- History
- Bloody Sunday and its aftermath 1905 (worsening of living and working conditions)
- after bloody sunday, a duma was formed. however, it consisted of non-elected people who supported the Tsar. Therefore, it still boiled down to what the Tsar wanted, and not what would really help improve the lives of the Russians and what the Russians wanted/needed. The tsar was still holding on to absolute power.
- Russian revolution march 1917 (against Tsar nicholas the second )
- the tsar showed his lack of knowledge inability to run a country and to manage Russia when he decided to go to war with germany during world war1, putting Rasputin and Tsarina Alexandra in charge of Russia back home while he went to the war front with his soldiers. he took charge of the soldiers during the war. he listened to what Rasputin told him to do with the soldiers(where the troops should move) even when Rasputin knew nothing about fighting wars.
- his strong belief in autocracy also led to his failure and the revolution as people held no power in running their own lives. the tsar had the last say in everything.
- his duma eventually split into 2 groups.
- 1. decided that they wanted to go against the Tsar because they lost faith in him.
- 2. decided that they had to save the tsar by killing Rasputin.
- Soldiers, peasants, women, old folks, nobles, all go against the Tsar, in an unplanned revolution.
- 1917 march, Tsar abdicates. Provisional Government takes of Russia(Provisional Gov. continues with WW1.)
- Russian revolution november 1917 (against provisional government)
- WW1 still went on after march 1917
- therefore, the P.G didn't gain support of the soldiers
- Lenin established the Bolsheviks which was established after the social democratic party split into 2 opposing groups-- Mensheviks and Bolsheviks
- Lenin created a propaganda, he reached out the the vast population of the Russians, the peasants "PEACE, BREAD, LAND" he continued to preach this and to discredit the provisional government
- All in all, what caused this revolution:-
- the P.G displayed weak leadership because there were no elections made(what democracy, right?) and did not pull out of WW1.
- The strength of the Bolsheviks. they could function like a small army: the Red Guards
THIS IS FOR CHRISTABEL ACTUALLY(:
