Tsar Nicholas II, I am writing to you regarding the state of Russia. he main issue is the that the majority of people living in Russia want is a more a fairer and equal society

Even though they live an endless cycle of poverty they have to put up an unbearable work load. Men and women are working in factories under hot, damp, dirty, dangerous conditions for long hours, for a pay of almost nothing. Their shifts are 12-14 hours a day. The weekly wage for a man during is around 15 shillings, but women and children are paid much lower wages. The women earn only around 7 shillings and for children 3 shillings. This is a terrible wage. Just think comparing this to your wage it’s a huge difference. Imagine if this was you, its no wonder they can’t live long because they are working so much but getting paid so little. It gets them nowhere. They live without food at times because of the huge taxes that they have to pay! To add to this you know Cotton threads have to be spun at less than 70ºF, The air is full of dust which leads to many cases of Chest and Lung diseases and loud noises made by the machines are damaging the workers hearing. I don’t know if you’ve realised the harsh things the children have to do. They are forced to crawl into dangerous and unguarded machines where sometimes the outcome would be that there fingers would get stuck in the machine. One person I spoke to told me that they had seen an iron bar forced straight though the cheek of a girl. He said this was usual along with other punishments including hanging weights, hanging them from the roof in baskets, nailing a children's ear to the table, and drowning them in cold water to keep them awake.
        However a life of the nobility is completely different. They live a comfy and elegant life and live in the glamorous cities and are a key part to your life by acting like office officials. But they don’t work 12 – 14 hours but have a better lifestyle then the peasants. They are fed on a daily regular basis but sometimes the peasants have to go without food for days even though there the ones who produce it! How would you feel if you had to go without food for days? The working conditions in which they work in are l far better then the peasants and they earn more money. The nobility don’t have to pay hefty taxes even though there the ones that can afford it. They are also in control of the peasants when they are working but the nobility are born into this lifestyle this makes it unfair and much harder for the peasants to build up their life.

Because of this the workers and Peasants are the people who want change the most. There are four main groups who demand change but want similar but different type of things.
Constitutional Democrats who are known as the Cadets want a parliamentary government which they think we lack now but they want to keep the monarchy but don’t want an “absolute monarchy” because they want a constitutional monarch. In order to get this they want it to be done peacefully.
Socialist Revolutionaries want to get what they want through an act of violence; they are getting moral support because they want to lose you the Tsar. This is highly supported by the peasants.
Social democrats – Mensheviks they also want to lose you as they don’t want autocracy and want more equality, in order to get this they need to get more people which gets more power.
The Bolsheviks who were also part of the Social democrats but are now there own independent group want to lose you but they want to keep the group small in order to get a good plan.
        As you can see from the above groups different things are wanted. This is purely because of the state of which Russia is in. They want change because they don’t think you are running the country the way they like. They all want equality. So that the peasants the middle class, the nobility and the workers no longer have these names but are all equal. The peasants believe this will make Russia a better country. The middle class want a greater democracy just like Britain has. Imagine if you were in there place, wouldn’t you want the same thing? We have already had strikes, demonstrations and protests. What will this lead us to next a revolution?