The Fall of the Tsar

The Tsar was also a very ignorant man who would ignore almost all advice he was given, even if it was good advice. Nicholas would only ever listen to his friend and people who were in great power, who funnily enough were his friends.

The second reason as to why the Tsar fell from power was World War 1.  The Russian Army was terribly run. The Tsar himself had chosen the Army Generals based on their status and friendship to him. They had to army experience and almost no idea what they were doing. They were very poorly equiped and some soldiers went into battle without guns. They were instructed: “If a man near you dies, pickup his gun and use it.” Because Russia was so big and the army generals were so unexperienced, they used soldiers at their disposal. Once all the best soldiers had been killed under poor leadership, peasants and some workers were made to conscript. Over 1 million soldiers had been killed by the end on 1914.

The last main reason for the fall of the Tsar was the 1917 March Revolution. In January 1917, strikes spread accross Russia. The Army soon began supporting the strikes. Once the Tsar had lost the support of Army, even he had doubts about his time left as Tsar. The Duma had directly advised the Tsar to do something before he was overthrown. He ignored them and asked the Duma to disband. They refused and knew they had to do something before there was another revolution, but it seemed like a revoloution was going to be the only way to sort out Russia. On the same day, the Petrograd Soviets was set up, again. They began taking control of the cities food supplies. It was clear that the Tsar was not in control of Russia any more.

Russia was finished with the Tsars. A proper government had to be set up.