HISTORY
WORLD WAR I AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
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Czar Nicholas II
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Hitler
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Peter the Great
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President Wilson
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Detailed explanation-1: -During the 1890s and early 1900s, bad living and working conditions, high taxes, and land hunger gave rise to more frequent strikes and agrarian disorders. These activities prompted the bourgeoisie of various nationalities in the Russian Empire to develop a host of parties, both liberal and conservative.
Detailed explanation-2: -Increasing governmental corruption, the reactionary policies of Tsar Nicholas II, and catastrophic Russian losses in World War I contributed to widespread dissatisfaction and economic hardship. In February 1917 riots over food scarcity broke out in Petrograd (St. Petersburg).
Detailed explanation-3: -Russian Revolution of 1905 leads to hunger strikes and riots. Czar Nicholas is forced to create a constitution and the Duma. Nicholas II forced to abdicate throne. Nicholas II, his wife and his children slaughtered by the Bolshevik government.