HISTORY
WORLD WAR I AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
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ordered into exile, never to return
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retained to be good citizens and work for the good of the country
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allowed to live in Russia as equal citizens
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declared non-people and deprived of both food and political rights
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Detailed explanation-1: -Many aristocrats were killed or driven into exile. Many who stayed behind – the “former people", as the Bolsheviks called them – perished in the purges or survived by concealing their origin.
Detailed explanation-2: -During the period of time before the Russian Revolution, life for the working class people and the peasants was very difficult. They worked for little pay, often went without food, and were exposed to dangerous working conditions.
Detailed explanation-3: -Middle class-A small middle class of civil servants, professionals such as doctors or lawyers, merchants and businessmen made up around 1.5% of the population. The middle class grew through industrialisation in the 1890s, both in number and in wealth.
Detailed explanation-4: -Upper classes: Royalty, nobility, higher clergy: 12.5 per cent. Middle classes: Merchants, bureaucrats, professionals: 1.5 per cent. Working classes: Factory workers, artisans, soldiers, sailors: 4 per cent. Peasants: Landed and landless farmers: 82 per cent.