Question

What were the reasons for the Russian revolution?

Answer 1

Russian in the late 19 / early 20 century was a massive empire stretching from poland to the pacificand home in 1914 to 165 million people of many languages and religion and cultures. Rulling such a massive state was difficult and the problems within russia produced a revolution in 1917 which swept the old system away. Several key fault lines can be identified as long term causes while the short term trigger in clearly world war 1.