NATIONALISM IN EUROPE
THE RISE OF NATIONALISM IN EUROPE
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peasants were able to buy more land
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landowners stopped building factories
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the tsar became more powerful
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radicals, including socialists gained supporters among the workers
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Detailed explanation-1: -How did the Industrial Revolution lead to the Russian revolution? Rapid industrialization caused discontent among the people, the growth of factories brought new problems, poor working conditions, really low wages, child labor, outlawed trade unions. War and revolution destroyed the Russian economy.
Detailed explanation-2: -Answer: Prior to 1917, the working class of Russia lived in abject poverty under the Tsars who encouraged capitalists. The wages were very low that the workers could not buy proper food or live in decent houses. The working hours were long and conditions of work unhygienic in most cases.
Detailed explanation-3: -(ii) Government supervised large factories to ensure minimum wages and working hours. (iii) In craft units and small workshops, sometimes working hours were 15 hours, compared with 10 or 12 hours in big factories. (iv) Workers were divided into different social groups and they were also divided by skill.
Detailed explanation-4: -Russian Revolution occurred in 1917 during the closing stages of World War I, which resulted in the withdrawal of Russia from the war and the creation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), which replaced the country’s longstanding monarchy with the first Communist state in the world.