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04 BACKGROUND TO THE SOVIET REVOLUTION
TSARIST RUSSIA
At the beginning
of the 20th century
Russian Empire had around
150 million inhabitants
was bad distributed
was a great diversity of nationalities
The economy based on agriculture
was beginning to develop industrially
the standard of living was low
and poverty was widespread.
autocratic monarchy
in which the tsar
exercised his power
as an absolute ruler
political opposition to tsarism
grew in Russia
a at the end of the 19th century
the Marxist-inspired
Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party (RSDWP)
was also founded
in 1903
the RSDWP split into two groups
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GRIGORI RASPUTIN (1869–1916)
in crisis and the breakdown
of the tsarist regime
Grigori Rasputin emerged as a symbol
of declining Russian autocracy
was a mystic
called to cure Alexei
he recovered
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