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Background of the Soviet revolution - Coggle Diagram
- Background of the Soviet revolution
Tsarist Russia
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The economy, based on agriculture, was slowly beginning to develop industrially
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Russia was an autocratic monarchy, in which the tsar exercised his power as an absolute ruler
Gradually, political opposition to tsarism grew in Russia
At the end of the 19th century, the Marxist-inspired Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party (RSDWP) was also founded
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Grigori Rasputin
In an atmosphere of crisis and the breakdown of the tsarist regime, he emerged as a symbol of declining Russian autocracy.
Rasputin was a mystic called to the palace to cure the tsar’s eldest son, Alexei
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