HISTORY
WORLD WAR I AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
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Question
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Workers were not making fair wages and were going hungry
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Citizens did not want to be involved in World War I because there were few supplies and so many deaths
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The tsar tried to keep autocratic rule and dissolved the Duma
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The people supported the healer Rasputin and wanted him to have more power
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Detailed explanation-1: -Issues with Rasputin He was rumoured to be a Khlyst, member of an extreme underground sect that had split from the Orthodox Church. He was infamous for his drunkenness and for womanising.
Detailed explanation-2: -Rasputin may be best-known for his dealings with the Russian royal family, the Romanovs, but he came from humble beginnings. He was born in a remote Siberian village to illiterate peasant parents, with his father a farmer.
Detailed explanation-3: -Rasputin’s most visible impact on the government was his frequent demands for the replacement of ministers. In most cases, Rasputin did this to curry favour with his benefactors and drinking partners.
Detailed explanation-4: -The conspirators then bound him and threw him through a hole in the ice into the Neva River, where he finally died by drowning. However, a subsequent autopsy largely refuted this account of events; Rasputin apparently was shot to death.