... were paid the land was the personal property of the peasant. As population grew plots of land became smaller and smaller, this meant peasants found it harder to sport their family each year. For all these reasons life was hard for Russian peasants, and diseases and malnutrition was common. Many of these peasants tried to improve their life by moving to ... Democratic Party. Their belief was for a society where people learned to work together rather than just for themselves, taking away selfishness from that society. In 1903 the Social Democratic Party split into two different groups, th...

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... couldn't be brought to the cites or to the war fronts on time if at all. This affected the way Russia functioned socially as well. The people of Russia were split up into two classes the proletariat and the bourgeoisie. The bourgeoisie were few and far between by the end of the beginning of November, the proletariat on the other hand ... Russian population, and they were the farmers, the factory workers, the bakers, train drivers and many others. But they were also the soldiers. The living conditions of working class Russian family at the time was extremely poor with run down and unhygi...

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... to the introduction of the repressive "temporary laws". The People's Will was the group that assassinated Alexander II. They did this because after October 1979, when the Land and Liberty split into two groups. The Land and Liberty group had been set up in 1876, after two Russian writers had published the book "Catechism of a Revolutionist". This book had a great affect ... listened to the priests and Bishops and met with Russia's wealthy upper class citizens. Though he carried out his duties as the Tsar, Nicholas was far more interested in his family life. Any opposition to the Tsar wa...

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... arises from this is the Petrograd Soviet, which consisted of workers, soldiers, sailors, and peasants. It is here that open political activity is also legalized. During this period the Marxists split into two rival factions: the Bolsheviks, headed by Lenin, and the Mensheviks, a group of orthodox Marxists who believed capitalism and social democracy must develop on their own. As World War ... the Russian army. He is placed under a lot of pressure, as the public sees the war as an unnecessary imperialistic attempt to gain more land. Not only are people losing family members but the count...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate