HIS242H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Military Revolution, Winter Palace, Mensheviks
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Duma ussia established duma following their defeat by japan (nobody saw this coming bc. Russia was the european great power and japan was just some small asian country) The germans easily captured and killed russians - testament to the incompetence of the russian war front. Tsar nicholas ii - russian emperor whose wife was german was he a spy tho. The elite visited him to receive his blessing . Economic, social and political crises eventually, the russian army removed him to save the russian political front. Russia lost the war because of their agricultural collapse" actually, no. They had enough food, but it was their means of transport (to distribute such food) that failed them. Increasing role of the middle class (education, politics) - the war terminated such. Marxist perspective on russia"s role in the war - russia was never on its way to being a developed country anyway. 90% of the russian army was comprised of peasants.
