Tsars Abdication

Question 1

Short term causes

Answer 1

• Worker strikes & Revolutionary workers groups
• Defeat in WWI
• Milyukov & Guchkov planned coup against the Tsar
• Economic Hardship and Famine
• Feb Rev

Question 2

Economic hardships faced

Answer 2

• Drained resources
• Food shortages
• inflation
• starvation
• Dissatisfaction with gov

Question 3

Long term causes

Answer 3

• Autocratic rule and Political stagnation
• Social Inequality and Economic backwardness
• Failure of 1905 Rev
• Weakness of Russian economy
• Nationalities problem

Question 4

Autocratic Rule?

Answer 4

• refusal to implement political reform
• Alienated Russian population

Question 5

Social inequality?

Answer 5

• Nobility privileges
• Working class in and conditions

Question 6

Weakness of Russian Economy?

Answer 6

• Slow industrialisation
• Agrarian based economy
• economic hardship for peasants & industrial workers

Question 7

Nationalities problem and Empire instability?

Answer 7

• Multi-ethnic Russia
• Russification policies
• Tension between non-Russian ethnic groups
• resented central government control and repression