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1. Arts and Humanities
2. History
3. History of Russia

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Cause 1 - Class distinctions:
Peasants

- Originally serfs (slaves) made free in 1861 by Alexander II (Nicholas's Granddad)
- Landlords made land extremely expensive to rent and produce went to land owner.
- No means of independence

Cause 1 - Class distinctions:
Workers

- Russia couldn't keep up with fast industrialization of Europe, especially Britain and Germany, constantly growing enterprises.
- Worked to the bone.
- Forced to work 16 hour days
- Already proved unhappiness in 1905 Bloody Sunday

Bloody Sunday -
Major cause which sparked revolution

200,000 people marched Winter Castle and presented Tsar with petition for freedom of speech, better working conditions etc. Thousands killed.

Why did Class distinctions contribute to the 1917 Revolution?

No right like free speech or trade unions, the lower class of Russia was treated horrendously. The revolutionaries offered the lower class things the Tsar wouldn't

Cause 2 - Disaster of WW1
Trouble on the War front

- Announced August 1914
- Tsar changed St Petersburg to Petrograd, believed "too German"
- Large numbers meant soldier were ill-equipped & disorganized
- Russian General stated "In several infantry regiments, at least 1/3 of our men had no rifles.
- Losing war drastically, Tsar refused to end it

Cause 2 - Disaster of WW1
Trouble back at home

- Alexandria (Tsarina) in charge, influenced by Rasputin (healer for Alexis)
- German decent (suspicious)
- Massive shortages, women couldn't feed families or buy fuel to heat their homes

Why did WW1 contribute to the 1917 Revolution?

Russia becoming more & more unstable, Tsar proving himself unfit to run the country, losing Russia's faith in him as their leader.

Sub Paragraph - Tsar's incompetence (desrcibing class distinctions & WW1, introducing Provisonal)

- Tsar's incompetence as a leader was the biggest cause of the Russian revolution
- ill-treatment of peasants and workers forced the poorer classes of Russia to support revolutionary parties promising for better treatment
- proved by mass mistake of WW1 thatunfit to run the army & Russia
- Refusal of Dual power meant something had to happen
- 15th of March 1917 Tsar forced to abduacte, Provisional Government temp until Nov elections

Cause 3 - Provisional Gouvernment:
Lead by Alexander Kerensky

- Russian's happy at first
- reforms such as freedom of speech, could form labor unions
- didn't answer the real problems such as food, fuel & poor working conditions
- Refused to end war, soldiers refused to fight
- "Peace, Bread, Land" increasing Soviet power
- Hired Kornilov, undermined Kerensky's leadership
- More Russian's backing Soviets
- "The soviet has the power without authority, The provisional government has authority without power." - Prince Lvov

The Russian Revolution -
October 1917

- After gaining massive support from the people of Russia, the Petrograd Soviet believed it was time to take control.
- They took over the main centers of Petrograd in the night and the Winter Palace in the morning.
- Lead by Trotsky and Lenin, the communist government was now in rule over Russia, they became the USSR.

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What were the causes of the Russian Revolution of March 1917?

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