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How did the Russian Revolution Unfold?

How did russia back into it?

How it's outcome was inevitable

Was the outcome inevitable?

2007-10-11 12:56:14 · 2 answers · asked by clalicata17 1 in Arts & Humanities History

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Another one that can't be answered simply. Best as i can...the Tsar and Tsarina (Nicholas II and Alexandria) were the ruling couple..the Romanov Dynasty. She was German....her grandmother was Victoria of England. Nicholas's cousins were Edward of England and Kaiser Wilhem of Germany.
Simply put...the rich were filthy rich and the poor were more than poor. The people wanted representation and a say in how their taxes were spent. They wanted food because famine was rampant. To make matters worse, Nicholas was a very weak Tsar and never should have been a monarch of ANY counrty, let alone Russia. He became embroiled in the Russo-Japanese War because the japanese wanted manchuria and it Russia laid claim to it. The Russina Fleet sailed from the eastern coast of Russia, down along Africa, across the ocean past India and into the Pacific and of course this cost loads of cash. In addition the nitwit Admiral insisted that although his battleships were painted jet black he insisted the stacks be painted a brilliant yellow. By the time he got to the sea of Japan, the Japanese Admiral (who was no slouch I remind you) found that by taking a reading on these bright yellow smokestacks that could be seen though the din and haze of battle light a beacon...you could mark the speed of your target and make your every shot count. Needless to say the entire Russian Fleet was destroyed.
So..this did little for morale at home. In the meantime...did I mention famine? Oh yeah..there was always more than one famine going on. A large group of people and priests marched on the Tsars Winter palace in a peaceful protest and wanted to speak with "Matushka"...which means "Little Father"...a respectful and affectionate term the people had for the Tsar. Now the Tsar wasn;t there at the time but the generals who WERE found themselves alittle shook up by this and quite frankly figured a load of maybe 10,000 or more smelly, starving mob of peasants with their women and dragging all those runny-nosed and starving children with them was a hell of a nuisance. So..out came the Cossacks and soldiers. The soldiers fired into the crowd and the Cossacks ran the rest down on horseback, slicing into the crowd with their sabers as they charged by. This was known as "Bloody Sunday".
This did not sit well with the people and granted..the Tsar was mortified and terribly shaken by this....but not enough to do anything about it other than shake his head and wring his hands.
Of course....the Kaiser recognized his cousin for what he was...a weak and spineless jellyfish and began to rattle his saber. On the poor advice of his military staff the Tsar mobilized his army. This was considered an act of war by the Kaiser...which is what he wanted anyway and war was declared...thus opening the door for everyone to become involved and WWI rolled off onto the scene.
The Bolsheviks were always around. Nicholas' father Alexander had Lenin's brother shot for treason/anarchy and Lenin did alittle stint in Siberia before finally hightailing it out of the country. Stalin, Trotsky and company laid the groundwork for the revolution and brought Lenin back after the Tsar agreed to re-establish the Duma and allow the people to have a voice. The people fell behind the Bolshevik's thinking they were the best thing since sliced bread and the Revolution began with the dissolution of the Duma by Bolsheviks sitting in the gallery with machine guns and politely advising all Duma members that their services were no longer required. The tsar and his family were arrested and after shuffling him and his wife, daughters, son and staff around the country....took them all into a cellar and shot each and every one of them. That is until they emptied their guns into everyone and then used bayonets and rifle butts to finish the job.
The out come was no doubt inevitable. The Tsar and his family asked to go to England for sanctuary but Edward denied them. Didn't want the aggravation. The Bolsheviks dropped out of WWI by telling the germans..."Hey...we have no beef with you" and that was that.
After that..the next nightmare for the Russian people started anew.

2007-10-12 08:20:26 · answer #1 · answered by Quasimodo 7 · 0 0

there replaced right into an impressive variety of discontent in Russia...the peasants, the employees, the non-Russian national minorities....the place you have discontent, you have a ripe breeding floor for revolution. upload to it, the Czar's disastrous showing interior the sphere for the duration of WW I, Rasputin being detested by utilising all and sundry, peasant and noble alike, financial inflation as a consequence of WW I, and the growing to be hatred of the Czar and all he represented. there is not any rapid, elementary description of the reason in the back of the revolution...it replaced into extremely some issues, all working mutually in an extremely little while-physique, that delivered approximately the preliminary riots and revolts, and led to an entire out revolution.

2016-11-08 01:16:24 · answer #2 · answered by lizarraga 4 · 0 0

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