outside Man 061-236 As the new Russia in 1917 Czar Nicholas the Second continued his autocratic coulu reacu iwo minor ov ine e was brought to an abrupt end in dIscussed the what is known as the "Februar Revolution'.
In particular there Within ten months the workers Tanure orte soldiers and peasants soviets, under the leadership col- party of Lenin and Trotsky, had seized power and thrust Russia on the socialist road. Never had such a sharp turn in history been concentrated inte such a hort period of -П a0URr carnage of the moved into its fourth vear. Russia entering the war alongside its allies of the Entente. Britain and France. had suffered enormous casualties Out of a total population of 150 million, 15 million men had been mobilised for the war front. Iwo million of those soldiers died. A further three million were wounded or captured.
Millions of others simply deserted trenches and Demoralisation, after the initial patriotic euphoria, swept the troops and officers. Everybody was waiting for the war to end. Needless to say the speculators and the factory owners naa rouno war a vers Drori! able business. For 1914/15 the Bushinsky textile firm in Moseow recorded net profits of year dawned over 1915 stated up wiw te Germans.
offer than:of the Bolshevik Ve Dooos InOn nGUSTrIa. First World War feudalism.
worked on the land.
railways. Germany went home.
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SUDD V. soldiers DOOFTaNSDOrESYSLCm living soared in the *The present day temanes or mumary tecamoue are 2450. beyond us. Atany rate we can t keep up even higher.
The War Minister Polivanov, in August 1915, had nothing better to 1 place my trust in the impenetrable spaces, impassable mud, and the mercy of Saint Nicholas Mirlikisky, Protector of Holy Russia. ' The collapse of the Russian sacked bakeries. armies in the war came as no surprise. In Russian society as a whole, that defeat was accompanied by the failure to transform the country Dourceois democracy. By 1914 Britain, France soldiers ano e many madar accomoHsnee their bourgeois revolutions. Russia suu uncerea unacr samsm anu endlessly.
Over 80% of the Russian people Per head national income was 8 times lower than in the United States. For every Square kilometres of land Russia had a mere 400 metres of had 11,700 RICSISSONS During the war Russia paid a neavy price tor us backwaroness.
Weapons and boots were in short ano equipmen could not be moved because of the While the war dragged on and demoralisation spread, the cost of cities and