Question

describe conditions of workers on the eve of russian rev

Answer 1

The First World War and the Russian Revolution
 1914: First World War broke out between two European alliances-Germany, Austria
and Turkey (the Central Powers) and France, Britain and Russia (later Italy and
Romania).
 1914-1916: Russian armies lost badly in Austria and Germany.
 Industries and industrial equipment disintegrated more rapidly in Russia than
elsewhere in Europe.
 Labour shortages and small workshops producing essentials were shut down as ablebodied men were called for the war.
 By 1916, riots at bread shops were common owing to the bread and flour scarcity.
 The February Revolution in Petrograd
 February, 1917: Food shortages were deeply felt in the worker’s quarters.
 The Tsar wanted to dissolve the Duma, but the revolutionaries opposed this.
 22nd February, 1917: A lockout took place at a factory which was followed by a
workers strike in fifty factories. Women led the strikes in many factories and this day
came to be known as the International Women’s Day

Answer 2

There were a couple of stormy events that occurred after the Russian revolution in 1917 as the First World War was almost close to an end.
Apart from the soldiers and the army, the Russian country farmers fought in the war and their families starved behind.
After the death of hundreds of people by the Czarist state heads, almost 30,000 workers from Moscow went on a strike.
There was a famine and the Worker’s organization went into severe repression with people starving without food. The farmers were not able to export their products and they could not sell their food in the local open markets.
The railway system was broken and the supplies could not reach or get out of the towns.