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Russian Revolution (Causes) - Coggle Diagram
Russian Revolution (Causes)
Significant Individuals
Leon Trotsky
Joseph Stalin
Vladmir Lenin
Tsar Nicholas II
Long-term causes (5+)
No political rights and not even food supplies
Poverty, terrible living conditions
urban overcrowding
poor conditions for urban industrial workers
no running water, and piles of human waste
centuries of oppression towards the lower classes by the Tsarist regime and Nicholas's failures in World War I
Trigger Causes (-1)
Tsar loosing support (Rasputin)
Slightly outdated economy- largely based on independent peasants (not much owned modern machinery)
Suffering from a naturally cold climate, Russia's growing season was only 4-6 months, compared to 8-9 in most of Western Europe.
Russia consisted mainly of poor farming peasants, with 1.5% of the population owning 25% of the land.
The vast demand for factory production of war supplies and workers caused many more labor riots and strikes.
Bloody Sunday, in which Russian workers saw their pleas for justice rejected as thousands of unarmed protestors were shot by the Tsar's troops
The response to the massacre crippled the nation with strikes
Nicholas promised a democratic parliament (the State Duma) to appease the people, but the Tsar nullified his promises and then dismissed the first two Dumas when they proved uncooperative.
These unfulfilled hopes of democracy fuelled revolutionary ideas and violence targeted at the Tsarist regime.
Short-term causes (1-5)
Tsar moved away
Tsar thought Duma's and his secret police's warnings were lies (or at least brushed them off as lies)
Joining WW1- Russia leaders supported Great Britain and the French
Too overconfident in winning
Soldiers fought with each other a lot, bad planning
Some soldiers had no proper weapon to fight with
3 million Russian soldiers dead
Food shortage