How did world war 1 help to bring about the Russian revolution?

Answer 1

Russia was beaten badly by the Germans on the battlefield, while back in Russia, the Russian civilian people starved and went without. Also, Tsar Nicholas was a failure as a leader of Russia, just like French king Louis XVI was a failure. The Germans allowed Lenin (a Russian communist) to travel to Russia to get that nation out of the war, and Lenin led a revolution in Russia to try and solve the internal problems of Russia. The internal problems in Russia would not be solved for a long time.

Answer 2

in its immediate and long term effects, the Russian revolution was more like the French Revolution than the American revolution. the American revolution expanded English political ideas into a constitutional government that built on many existing structures. in contrast, both the Russian and french revolutions attempted to destroy existing social and political structures.

Answer 3

It was World War I that cost the Tsar the military force he needed to keep the Russian people from overthrowing his regime. The Russian Army was losing its battles and suffering huge casualties. The soldiers in the army began to refuse to carry out orders, to murder some of their own officers and to demand that the war be ended. When Tsar Nicholas II refused to end the war, military discontent got so intense that when demonstrations and rioting broke out in Petrograd, the army refused the Tsar's orders to put down the demonstrations. Once the Tsar saw that he could no longer command his own military forces, he knew he had lost the power to prevent the revolution so he abdicated his throne.

Answer 4

When World War I started, Russia was a huge but very backwards country. When Russian armies started fighting, they lost badly to the better trained and equipped Germans. The war was going very badly, and food and other shortages back home made the common people angry at their emperor (known as a "Tsar").

Eventually the Tsar went to personally command his armies (which he was bad at, so he didn't help the situation), and while he was gone, the Tsar's unpopular wife (who was originally from Germany, so a lot of Russians thought she was a spy) tried to govern in his absence. She failed. Protests against the war and shortages became larger; the Tsar ordered some of his military to shoot the protesters. The soldiers instead joined the protesters, and this was the start of the February Revolution.