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#12 Describe several causes of the Russian Revolution
- Poor economy/ Leadership/ Rasputin
- Failure to solve foreign/domestic problems
- Nicholas II- Poor Leader
- Duma- No legitimate power
- Reliance on Rasputin by Alexandra
- Tsar abdicates
- Leon Trotsky; Vladimir Lenin; Joseph Stalin
- Lenin read works of Karl Marx
- Spread Marxist ideas
- Lenin called for group to lead revolution; BOLSHEVIKS
- Germany aided Lenin in returning home after exile; Could weaken Russian gov't
- Russo-Japanese War/ WWI
- After Russo-Japanese war, Russia enters WWI weakened
- Outcome of WWI; Russia falls behind rest of Europe; faith lost in leader