(A) Food shortages and 12 hour work days
(B) The Czar’s military forces fire on unarmed serfs who are protesting on what is known as Bloody Sunday
(C) Serfs wanted more land rights
(D) ** Russia drops out of WWI
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Concept note-1: -The effects of World War I gave rise to the Russian Revolution. In February and March 1917, a popular revolution forced the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II and the rise of a provisional government. This government, which kept Russia in the war, was itself overthrown by radical socialists just eight months later.
Concept note-2: -The most important impact of the Russian Revolution was that it eventually took Russia out of World War I. Without Russia to occupy German troops on the Eastern Front, Germany was free to send most of those troops to the Western Front in a final effort to win the war.
Concept note-3: -After the definite end of WWI, the Communist government renamed Russia the Soviet Union. In the short term, the Russian withdrawal hurt the Allies. Germany transported several hundred thousand troops from Russia to the Western Front and launched an offensive in March 1918.
Concept note-4: -The decision to go to war in 1914 had catastrophic consequences for Russia. The result was revolution, civil war and famine in 1917–20, followed by decades of Communist rule.
Concept note-5: -Russia’s withdrawal was due to exhausted forces in an already prolonged World War I. Peace talks were already ongoing but stalled due to disagreements in the Brest-Litovsk Peace Talks, resulting in Bolshevist Foreign Minister Leon Trotsky to walk away from peace negotiations.