Cause of the March Revolution 1917

... Russia and the Tsar were in a downward spiral. Even before the war the country was in a terrible state. There were economical causes. The industry and agriculture in Russia was poor. The peasants had very little land as most of it was owned by the nobility in Russia. The peasants had to grow what little they could in the cold, icy soil. They earned very little and they lived in small wooden huts often shared with other families. They couldn't afford much food so many thousands of people staved to death. The industry in Russia was also poor. The factories were paying bare minimum to the workers and treating them like dirt. In the years leading up to the war the factory conditions got worse. The bosses didn't need to make the conditions very good because that would have been a waste of his money. The workers weren't going

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