HIS242H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: House Of Romanov, Petrograd Soviet, Food Riot
Document Summary
The russian revolution was a major event closely associated with wwi, aside from the great war and its catastrophic consequences, the revolution posed a major threat to capitalism and world order. Happened alongside wwi, presenting an ideology which presents a major challenge to western democracy and economic system. Union, but communist ideology is still a relevant force. One of the poorest and weakest of the great powers, and did not seem to t the marxist ideology. The impact of the russo - japanese war. There was an unstable political system in place. The political system was dominated by three prevailing ideas of the russian empire, autocracy, orthodoxy and nationality. Autocracy was the political system dominated by the tsar, he had absolute rule over his state, rooted in the previous centuries. Ever since tsar was established, tsar s had absolute powers.
