RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
MAJOR EVENTS IN PRE REVOLUTION RUSSIA
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severe food shortages
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Tsar Nicholas II’s abdication
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major military desertions
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Vladimir Lenin’s return from exile
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Detailed explanation-1: -The February Revolution was the result of the acute aggravation of the economical and political crisis in Russia. It came about seemingly spontaneously when people of the Russian capital Petrograd started to rally against the war and against the food supply shortages in the city.
Detailed explanation-2: -However, the immediate cause of the February Revolution-the first phase of the Russian Revolution of 1917-was Russia’s disastrous involvement in World War I. Militarily, imperial Russia was no match for industrialized Germany, and Russian casualties were greater than those sustained by any nation in any previous war.
Detailed explanation-3: -Food shortages were the result of declining agricultural production, which particularly plagued the Soviet Union. This chart reflects the widespread underproduction throughout the Soviet Republics. Only Ukraine, Belorussia, and Kazakhstan produced a surplus.
Detailed explanation-4: -It was caused by the incompetence of the government and its inadequate measures in a crisis situation. Despite all the efforts later made by the Provisional Government, the supply of Petrograd was never restored, so the bread shortage led to new political crises during 1917.