HIS 1110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Liberal Democracy, Microsoft Onenote, Russian Empire
8 Oct 2016
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His: russian revolution and birth of the ussr. Born out of dissatisfaction for the tsar nicholas ll. They thought that his regime was corrupt, and inefficient. When japan crushes the russian fleets and in consequences, forces. Russia to sign a humiliating treaty, the russians went to the street and protest against the tsar regime. The tsar uses his army against the protest. On one side there are protest for freedom of speech and better living conditions, and other side the multiethnic groups within the empire of the tsar starts to awaken. The tsar is under pressure so he reacts by allowing the creation of the. It stills doesn"t have that much power, most of the power is still concentrated on the tsar. Russia in wwl is led by incompetence and this leads to discontent amongst the russian people. They feel that the tsar is wasting the lives of the russian soldiers to the war.
