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BACKGROUND TO THE SOVIET UNION image - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Diversity of
        
        Cultures
        
        Nationalities
    - - Based on agriculture
      - Began industrially
      - Low living standard
        
        Poverty
  - - - Tsar
  - - - Working class revolution to eliminate injustice, inequality
    - - Bolsheviks
        
        Seizure of power
        
        Working-class minority
        
        Vladimir Lenin
      - Mensheviks
        
        Moderate
        
        Favoured alliance with reformist liberalism
        
        Julius Martov
- - - - Russo-Japanese War
        
        Defeated Russia
        
        Weakness of tsarist regime
        
        Economic, political, social crisis
  - - - Bloody Sunday
        
        Popular outrage
        
        Rupture between
        
        People
        
        Tsar
  - - - Political strikes
        
        Coordinated by Soviet
        
        Peasants
        
        Soldiers
        
        Workers
        
        Fundamental role in revolution
  - - - Agrarian reform
        
        Create social base of support for liberal regime
        
        Cancelled
        
        Assassination of promoter
        
        Pyotr Stolypin
      - Limited individual, citizens' liberties
      - Duma / National Legislative Assembly
        
        Parliament =
        
        Controlled by tsar
  - - - Russian defeats
        
        Nicholas II
        
        Control of army
        
        Couldn't prevent collapse, civil power breakdown
      - Poor living conditions
        
        Worsened economic, social situation
      - Demoralisation of army, people
        
        New revolutionary outburst
  - - - Connect Europe with remote Russian regions