Revolutionary Russia, 1900-1921

This class is is titled “Revolutionary Russia, 1900-1921”. The fact that it spans 21 years of history in the title, as do many books written about this age, show just how complex the revolution was. This paper may be focused on the events that acured in February of 1917 but the social and political changes the effected Russia happened over many years. Many say that they are continuing to this day but that is a topic for another paper. The question posed for this paper is, was the autocracy overthrown or did it collapse. My one sentience answer is, its not that simple. In this paper I will atempt to explain why I believe this. Everyone agrees that the start of the February Revolution was the riots for bread on International Women 's Day, the 23rd. Riots like this had been happening for quite a while up to this point. What made this one stick and become …show more content…
Russia did not have the funds to continue the war effort so they kept printing more money as well as taking loans from France and Britain. Which causes inflation in their monetary system. The final peg in the empires coffin, was the fact that the property owners lost faith in the system. Members of the autocracy had been having been fears for years that those in control were weak and couldn 't control the nation. They had concerns that the Tzars concession to the 1905 revolution meant that they could end up loosing their power in the future. Many individuals of the Intelligentsia, as well as the Duma had constructed plans against the Tzar is response. None of which were enacted at this time but the layed the ground work for the cous that came latter. At this time speeches were made against the autocracy in public settings. Those losing power called Nicholas II stupid, others treasonous. All of these things accumulated in a distrust for the tsarist