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TSAR - Coggle Diagram
TSAR
russia before revolution
increasing political opposition
SD's- Mensheviks and bolshesviks
SR's (populists)
liberals
kadets/ octoberists
backward
agriculture
modernisation needed- but potential threat
population
80% peasants
restricted
oppressed- tax
orthodox church
urban workers
poor living and working conditions
mostly ex peasants
diverse
ethnic/national minorities
growing middle class
WW1
heavy loses
1915 tsar assume controls
tsarina in change
1917: army on verge of collapse
food shortages set conditions in cities
initial support for Tsar
geography
.vast (1/6 of land mass)
natural reasons
1905 rev
oct manifesto
duma
changed perception of Tsar
feb rev
demands
end of war
bread
end of tsarism
creates Prov. gov.
popular uprising
soldiers join
escalating protest (23rd feb)
abdication of Tsar
dual power
Lenin's April thesis (peace, bread, land) (all power to soviets)
komilov affair
July days
no opposition
army (cossacks)
okhrana
romanov dynasty
nichollas 2nd
committed to autocracy
incompetent and indecisive
disconnected from people
nepotistic- likes friends and family
ordained by god
supported by huge inefficient bureaucracy
autocracy