Middle Class in World War 1?

Answer 1

The workers suffered much more in the war than the middle classes. But the middle classes were also not very happy with the Tsar by 1916. Many middle class activists in the Zemstva were affected by the wounded soldiers who fought at the Warsaw station. The set up their own medical organisations along the lines of the modern Red Cross. Or they joined war committees to send other supplies to the troops joined war committees to send other supplies to the troops. These organisations were much more effective than the government agencies (institutions). By 1916 many industrialists were complaining that they could not fulfil their war contracts because they didn't have enough raw materials (metals) and fuel. In 1915 an alliance of Duma politicians called the Progressive Bloc, had spur the Tsar on to work with them in a more representative style of government that would cooperate the people. The Tsar dismissed the Duma a month later.