ENGL 338 Chapter Pages 55-61: Bressler- The Revolutionary Era (1905-1925)
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Distracted by the war, and with no soldiers to support it, the tsarist authority at home was undermined. This was meant to increase productivity and decrease peasant anarchy by promoting respect for private property rights that were otherwise weak in the communal setting. Stolypin would shut down duma anytime they posed any opposition. (1912) assassinated: the people were unhappy because collective bargaining rights and labor conditions were horrendous. Peasants wrongly saw private estates as the source of their hunger, meanwhile the minorities resented russification policies. (1914) wwi begins with austria v. serbia, but then expanded when germany invaded. The german kaiser wilhelm ii"s push for global power brought the three rivals- france, russia, and england-together against. The war cost so much that it undid the fiscal reform in russia from previous decades. War requires a collaboration between the government, industry, and labor sects, but the tsar refused to share wartime power out of the fear that the.
