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THE BACKGROUND
ABOUT INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
- STEEL WAS USED FOR RAILWAYS AND TEXTILES FOR UNIFORMS.
- TRANS-SIBERIAN RAILWAY WAS CONSTRUCTED DURING THIS TIME, 1891-1916.
- THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION HIT RUSSIA LATER THAN MOST OF THE OTHER EUROPEAN AND WESTERN NATIONS.
- THE EMANCIPATION OF THE SERFS IN 1861 AIDED RUSSIA IN ITS TRANSITION INTO AN INDUSTRIALIZED SOCIETY.
- BEGINING IN THE 1880'S WITH LARGE FACTORIES THAT PRODUCED TEXTILES AND STEEL, COAL MINING BECAME IMPORTANT.
(YOUNG, PAGE 1)
- MANY CITIZENS LOST FAITH IN THE LEADER CZAR NICHOLAS 2.
- THIS IS BECUASE OF GOVERNMENT CORRUPTION, THE ECONOMY, AND HE DISSOLVED THE DUMA, OR THE RUSSIAN PARLIAMENT AFTER THE 1905 REVOLUTION, AFTER A NUMEROUS AMOUNT OF TIMES.
(RUSSIAN REVOLUTION: BACKGROUND, PAGE 1)
CAUSE OF RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
THE BEGINNING
- THE CAUSE OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION WAS MOSTLY DUE TO THE COUNTRIES INVOLVEMENT IN WORLD WAR 1.
- THE ECONOMY WAS SPIRALLING DOWN BECUASE OF THIS EXTREMELY COSTLY WAR.
- BECUASE OF THIS MANY RUSSIANS JOINED TOGETHER TO OVERTHROW THE LEADER CZAR NICHOLIS 2.
(RUSSIAN REVOLUTION: BACKGROUND, PAGE 1)
- MARCH 11, UNITS OPENED FIRE, KILLED DEMONSTRATORS, PROTESTERS STILL STAYED IN THE STREETS
- MARCH 12, UNITS OF PETROGRAD GARRISON DEFEATED CUASE OF DEMONSTRATOR.SOLDIERS JOIN COMITTIES AND NOMINATE DEPUTIES TO PETROGRAD SOVIET.
- MARCH 15, CZAR NICHOLAS 2 TOOK THRONE
(RUSSIAN REVOLUTION, PAGE 1).
- BEGAN MARCH 8, 1917
- MARCH 10, STRIKE EXPANDED THROUGH WORKERS, MOBS DEMOLISHED POLICE STATIONS
(RUSSIAN REVOLUTION, PAGE 1)
RUSSIAN INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION