HIS 2342 Lecture Notes - Mensheviks, War Communism, Saint Petersburg
20 Mar 2014
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The russian revolution is the catalyst of a series of events and how these events build on one another. Russia was one of the countries that were the most affected as a result of wwi. They started to suffer from food shortage in their major cities even though as an agricultural country the food was unable to travel across the country because the trains were being used in the war efforts. In 1915 the russian left started to challenge the state and its war efforts. They started to ask for reforms which could protect minorities and help with other minor demands. By the end of 1915 as the situation in the war became worst the left started to make extensive demands and that parliament have more power (the dumas). It"s a national representative assembly with legislative powers but in fact they"re strictly under the control of the tsar.
