HIS242H1 Lecture 4: Lecture 4
Document Summary
Russians always lose when german intervenes war between ger and rus. This means that russian empire is so weak that germans can fight them off so eaily. Until tsar nicholas ii decided to lead the army. That means all the lost wars were her fault. Wife of nicholas ii: german background. A holy man offered a cure to treat their weak son: because its cured, nicholas made him one of his advisors. This holy man was loved by the elites and nobles: 1916 - assainated the holy man, the state collapsed. Two primary interpretation of war: western interpretation. Russia given the developments in the 20th cent. The increasing role of the middle class. The war terminated all these: marxist interpretation. Never on their own to institutional monarchy. War did not undermine the tsar or the organization. No chance to survive and only a socialist revolution would have done so. Pg: led by the liberal, bourgeois elite.
