Question

Describe any three events leading to the feburary revolution of 1917 in russia

Answer 1

1. WW1 decimates Russia with food shortages, fuel shortages rising prices, and yet more thousands of Rusian sons killed due to blundering generals and bad planning!

2. Lenin returns from Exile and challenges the provisional government of Kerenski.

3. Russinan troops are ordered to fire on demonstrators

Answer 2

The following were the causes of the February Revolution:

Weaknesses of Russiathe defeat of Russia in the hands of Japan in 1904 had been highly humiliatinghuge population and the poor infrastructure made it difficult for the Government to carry on it administration effectivelythe economy was still dependent on the age old farm economypoor working conditions and poverty spread everywhereautocratic rule of Tsar Nicholas IIFirst World WarThe loss of Russia in the Battles of Tannenberg and Masurian Lakes was not only humiliating but it also caused the death of around 200,000 menPeople now lost all faith in the Government and in the armyMost soldiers were actually farmers. There withdrawal from the farms caused acute food shortages in the countryThe autocratic Rule of the TsarBoth the Tsar and the Tsarina were unable to drive the country out of the crisis and thus the country seemed to lose all hopes in the Government