The 15th of March, 1917, the tsar gives up and abdicates after two weeks of national riots and strikes among soldiers and workers. One of the greatest empires in the world has collapsed like a tower of cards would fall if one of the cards at the bottom was removed. 300 years of autocratic rule was s...
War was a great threat to the consolidation of the French Revolution (1789) and the Russian Revolution (February 1917), however there were other causes that contributed to the revolution. The declaration of war against Austria by France caused discontentment amongst the French society while Russia's...
The abdication of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia in March 1917, was a result of numerous significant factors. The causes of his downfall included his lack of leadership, poor decisions, the changing social conditions and the rise of opposition groups such as the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks. The abdica...
LENIN"S ROLE IN THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION. Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, known famously as Lenin, died on the 21st of January in 1924 after having suffered many strokes. The sweeping state funeral followed in Moscow where his embalmed corpse was laid to rest in a mausoleum built outside the Kremlin's wa...
Was Russia a Prosperous Country During the Rule of Nicholas II? For centuries Tsars ruled Russia. This period came to an end during the Russian revolution of 1917. The events changed Russia completely and brought the people a new form of government. The age of the Romanov's abruptly ended with the ...