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BACKGROUND TO THE SOVIET REVOLUTION
TSARIST RUSSIA
economy was based on agriculture,
slowly beginning to develop industrially
Russian Empire had around 150 million inhabitants.
diversity of nationalities, peoples and cultures.
Russia was an autocratic monarchy
tsar exercised his power
established by divine right
as an absolute ruler
backed by
a feudal aristocracy,
the Orthodox Church
corrupt bureaucracy.
political opposition to tsarism grew
Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party (RSDWP) was also founded
In 1903, the RSDWP split into two groups.
Bolsheviks
defended the seizure of power
committed working-class minority
Mensheviks
moderate and favoured an alliance with reformist liberalism.
