Russian Revolution

The Russian Revolution was the collective term for the series of revolutions in Russia in 1917, which destroyed the Tsarist autocracy and led to the creation of the Soviet Union. The first revolution of February 1917 in March in the Gregorian calendar the Czar was deposed and replaced by a Provisional government. In the second revolution in October that year, the Provisional Government removed and replaced with a Bolshevik government.

In the start of 1917 Russia was ripe for revolution. It was growing rapidly, creating and expanded social opportunities but also great uncertainty. There were economic and social changes. Changes were facilitated by the physical movement of peasant villagers who migrated to and from industrial and urban environments, but also the migration of city culture into the village through material goods, the press, and word of mouth.

On Saturday the 25th the police lost control of the revolution, Nicholas II, who refused to believe the warnings about the seriousness of those events, sent a faithful telegram to the chief of the Petrogard military district, General Sergei Khabalov: "I command you tomm0rrow to stop the disorders in the capital, which are unacceptable in the difficult time of war with Germany and Austria."

Causes of World War 1

One cause of WWI was nationalism. It caused Germany and Italy to move a part their states, but strong nationalist movements and revolutions led to the unification of in 1861 and that of Germany in 1871. Another cause was that the Franco-Prussian War of Germany in 1870-1871 was that France was left seething over the loss of Alsace-Lorraine to Germany and Revanche was a major goal of the French.

A second reason was imperialism. Great Britain, France and Germany had to get foreign markets after the increase in manufacturing caused by the Industrial Revolution. Those countries competed for economic expansion in Africa. Britain and France resolved their differences in Africa. Crises was foreshadowing the war involved the conflict of Germany against Britain and France in North Africa.