Factsheet on imperial russia

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  1. Fact Sheet on imperial Russia

  2. Intro

Before the Bolsheviks took over Russia in 1917, Russia was under an autocratic ruling system. If you look at a map Russia is about 100 times the size of the United Kingdom. The ruling system was poor, some may argue about this. Since Russia was so big would it really be the Tsar Nicholas II’s fault? To try and solve that question, there will be four sections to give some reasoning to people’s thoughts.

Geography:

Russia’s geography not only made the temperature of Russia uninhabitable, the temperature in some places made it difficult very difficult, basically impossible for crops to grow since some of Russia is in the Arctic Circle. Most of the inhabitants of Russia lived on the border of Russia. (The map of Russia below shows the population density of different parts of Russia.)

  The fact that the size of Russia was so big made it even harder for the Tsar to give commands to his country. Since Russia was so large it shared a lot of borders with a few countries, some people from other countries would cross the border into Russia with different languages and cultures. This in a way could help the Tsar because he might’ve had more allies ()

since his country had people from other countries living there. But when it was time for the army to complete orders and try to find resources in certain parts of Russia, it would be difficult because the army would speak Russian but the villagers couldn’t, and it would be hard to find someone who spoke that certain language in an army of millions. Russia stretches through Europe and Asia. Russia has a total of 11 time zones. Just imagine how long it would take to send an army from one side of the country to another. Also if food was being delivered from opposite side of Russia some would have already been spoiled by the time it got to its destination point.

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Political Issues:

Russia was ruled in an autocratic system till 1917, which means that the Tsar had the final say. The people thought that the autocratic system was really unfair. The Tsar during 1914 was Nicholas II, so the people were even more outraged since Tsar Nicholas II was not that good at making decisions. Even though the autocratic system was already horrible the fact that the number of serfs out numbered the Tsar made it harder to control. Thus creating the revolution… But before we start talking about the revolution, we still need to talk about the Political ...

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