Tom Hartrick 18/11/2007
How important a reason for the outbreak of revolution in 1917 was Russia’s involvement in the First World War?
This question focuses on the factors which led Russia to a revolution in 1917 and the significance as World War 1 as a reason. There were several factors which can be categorised into long term, medium and short term or ‘trigger’ factors. The long term factors which caused the revolution included, the non-popular support of the Tsar meant that an anti-Tsarist attitude shared by most of the population of Russia. The medium term causes included, the effects of World War 1 on Russia, also economic problems in Russia were to blame along with food shortages in Russia and political problems also affected Russia. The trigger factors which contributed to the 1917 revolution included the shortages of bread in the Russian capital and different forms of weather.