While Economic factors contributed towards the February Revolution it was not the main reason behind it. Russia’s out-dated economy meant that Russia’s agriculture was largely dependants on peasants, who rarely owned modern machinery. With the shortage of fertile farming land and ineffective farming methods, many were unable to afforded their land taxes causing peasants to move into cites in search of work. Life in the cites wasn’t any better, factory wages were so incredibly low that few people could afford to rent their own rooms. In some factories workers and their families were expected to live alongside their worktops, this goes to show that economical factors as such were influenced by political decisions by the tsarist government. Many
