Firstly the Russian empire’s economy was largely focused on agriculture; which was also essential for feeding their vast empire. At the start of the First World War agricultural workers and horses were drafted to the army causing a reduction in food production. This meant contentment on the home front was low as there weren’t enough people to do the work and people weren’t getting enough food; this is a direct cause of the war and is a prime example of how the First World War was responsible for the fall of the Romanovs. Combined with the lack of workers was the army takeover of the railway, this meant that there were further food shortages in towns and cities as there was very poor internal communication; the lack of workers caused by the war affected the people’s faith in the Czar and the war and contributed to the eventual downfall of the Czarist regime. To add to this rationing was introduced and each person was entitled to 50 grams of bread a day.
As a result of this many peasants were in poverty. As the Tsar was an absolute monarch all the blame for starving people was put onto him. The climate of Russia had a huge impact in the quality of life Russians would lead, and to which their opinion of the Tsar would be based. The weather affected space for agriculture and space for human life. Serbia was inhospitable and the soil was not good for crops.
Loyal army has been replaced with around 15 million peasants, the army had sympathised with workers and themselves along with the navy began mutiny against a government they had no wish to fight and die for with the Bolsheviks rioting. In addition, the peasants could not plough, sow or bring harvest as the young men were of fighting in the war. And they were still heavily in debt after the freeing of the serfs – they had to buy their freedom over Fifty years, and many were still serfs. The situation in the countryside caused problems in the cities, because of lack of harvest they were starving, and in the army the peasants in uniform wanted to go back to
Russia’s severe weather conditions and harsh winters such as that in 1916 caused many famines disrupting agriculture which provided grain to feed civilians and export for traders. As grain was a major contributor to Russia’s economy any disturbances in the business would cause an overwhelming issue for the country. Despite the country having a large amount of natural resources such as iron
The tragedies of the characters that are descriptively shown in the novel resemble the Japanese victims in the war. The Japanese suffered through periods of starvation and psychological devastation when the economy spiralled downwards. The Japanese economy suffered in their financial state because of their massive military spending – the cost of their imperialistic conquest. In the novel, Hiroshi could not understand why “Yanaka’s alleyways were crowded with women and children who lined up and waited for hours for meagre rations of rice and salted fish. (Tsukiyama 51)” Due to the second Sino-Japanese war in 1937, the Japanese had to cut down on imports to pay for the materials for railway and ship building industries.
Assess the reasons for opposition and unrest in Russia from 1894 to 1905 During 1894-1905 Russia faced much opposition to its dictatorship rule by Tsar Nicholas II. There was social unrest throughout Russia within this time period, which was created by economic troubles, the loss in the Russo-Japanese war and political problems. The Tsar was also a very weak figure and there was Opposition to the autocratic system. Industrialisation in Russia helped Russia’s economy grow massively and in 1914 it was one of the causes of opposition and social unrest in Russia, as industrialisation caused a gap between the rich and poor. This caused the division of society between the countryside and towns.
The prices had risen so much that transport was limited, so not much food could reach Petrograd before it was rotting. The Russians were furious losing the support for their leader. Nicholas was appointed after his father died to be the autocratic ruler of Russia. Nicholas by this time of the late 19th Century when he came into power should’ve realized that he
Effects of the Great Depression Everyone throughout the United States took a big hit from the economic collapse in the 1920’s. It was called “The Great Depression” because that’s simply what it was. It was the worst time in the U.S. economy to date. Farmers, obviously unemployed men, women and children had to do whatever they could to survive. Farmers had an especially hard time during the Great Depression because many of them had taken out loans to pay for more equipment.
This source describes Russia in 1917. The Russian armies eventually collapsed in 1917, but this was due more to poor leadership, inadequate supplies and political developments at home, than to defeat in the field. Russia’s cities experienced food shortages. There was inflation and enthusiasm for the war had been replaced by discontent and waves of strikes. By early 1917 all the ingredients for revolution existed in Russia.
Source eight describes how exactly Peter went about building his new capital which was St Petersburg.The conditions of working were terrible.The brutally hard working conditions along with scurvy ,dysentry and malaria killed around 25000 people and so this was a big failure of Peter as this was all for his own selfish needs. To sum up i do not think that Peter deserves the title of Peter the Great because of all these failures listed above :He taxed heavily , was very violent ,has been described as barbaric,failed in many war like actions ,didn’t solely change Russia it was down to other people he just took glory ,he destroyed relationships between Church and state and lastly he killed many workers just to make a new capital