describe the condition of Russian workers on the eve of Russian revolution in 1917 ?
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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.
Workers were a divided in social group. Some had strong links with the villages from which they came. Others had settled in cities permanently. Workers were divided by skill. A metalworkers of St.petersburg recalled , metalworker considered themselves aristocrats among other workers. Their occupation demanded more training and skill...' women made up 31% of the factory labour force by 1914, but they were paid less than men. Some workers formed association to help members in times of unemployment or financial hardship but such association were few