Essay about the causes for revolution in pre-communist Russia

In 1917, a country covering thousands of miles with millions of citizens changed radically in under a year. Through political and military means, the Russian state, its people; and the world had transformed from a crumbling empire of royal dictators into an idealistic young nation. The revolution had many causes and factors, many leaders and heroes for every faction. The revolution struck with speed and intensity, and when it was over, the government that was in …

…shoes, ammunition or even weapons. All of this, along with military defeats, lowered the moral of the troops to near mutinous. The country blamed Nicholas, and the support that he had before was almost completely gone. In November of 1916, the Duma issued a warning that disaster would overtake the country unless a constitutional form of government was put in place. Nicholas them as always, and a few months later the Tsarist form of rule ended.