https://padlet.com/willmottl/k3zuzr951mhiun4w HISTORY REVS en-us 2021-02-25 02:37:25 UTC 2021-03-23 00:37:12 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/2692.png https://padlet.com/willmottl/k3zuzr951mhiun4w/wish/1239219663 Russian economy was not developed enough and relied on foreign investment]]> 2021-02-25 02:42:46 UTC https://padlet.com/willmottl/k3zuzr951mhiun4w/wish/1239219663 https://padlet.com/willmottl/k3zuzr951mhiun4w/wish/1239221137 118 strikes in June 1914]]> 2021-02-25 02:43:46 UTC https://padlet.com/willmottl/k3zuzr951mhiun4w/wish/1239221137 https://padlet.com/willmottl/k3zuzr951mhiun4w/wish/1239222031 Society was more receptive to anti-war propaganda and rhetoric ]]> 2021-02-25 02:44:21 UTC https://padlet.com/willmottl/k3zuzr951mhiun4w/wish/1239222031 https://padlet.com/willmottl/k3zuzr951mhiun4w/wish/1239224171 Conscription of men resulted in shortage on peasant landholdings and decline in food production]]> 2021-02-25 02:45:43 UTC https://padlet.com/willmottl/k3zuzr951mhiun4w/wish/1239224171 https://padlet.com/willmottl/k3zuzr951mhiun4w/wish/1239225574 The fact that there were more men mobilised to fight in WWI compared to weaponry available (6.5 million men compared to 4.6 million rifles at the end of 1914)]]> 2021-02-25 02:46:38 UTC https://padlet.com/willmottl/k3zuzr951mhiun4w/wish/1239225574 https://padlet.com/willmottl/k3zuzr951mhiun4w/wish/1239226193 deterioration, even failure on poorly-maintained transportation system due to heavy use of transporting soldiers and equipments ]]> 2021-02-25 02:47:05 UTC https://padlet.com/willmottl/k3zuzr951mhiun4w/wish/1239226193 https://padlet.com/willmottl/k3zuzr951mhiun4w/wish/1239227957 The Tsar's absence in Petrograd (due to becoming commander in chief) resulted in powerful union bw tsarina and Rasputin with them taking control of political matters in Russia]]> 2021-02-25 02:48:21 UTC https://padlet.com/willmottl/k3zuzr951mhiun4w/wish/1239227957 brownga https://padlet.com/willmottl/k3zuzr951mhiun4w/wish/1239229205 2021-02-25 02:49:17 UTC https://padlet.com/willmottl/k3zuzr951mhiun4w/wish/1239229205 https://padlet.com/willmottl/k3zuzr951mhiun4w/wish/1239229404 inefficiency of transport system lead to food shortages in cities and on the front]]> 2021-02-25 02:49:26 UTC https://padlet.com/willmottl/k3zuzr951mhiun4w/wish/1239229404 https://padlet.com/willmottl/k3zuzr951mhiun4w/wish/1239229832 rasputin was a paradoxical faith figure who managed to infiltrate the Romanov's. he was a filthy peasant who by night got drunk and had lots of sex, but by day was 'healing' the Tsarovich alexei ]]> 2021-02-25 02:49:45 UTC https://padlet.com/willmottl/k3zuzr951mhiun4w/wish/1239229832 https://padlet.com/willmottl/k3zuzr951mhiun4w/wish/1239231691 russia had spent more than 1.5 billion roubles on the war, meant higher taxes and foreign loans, eventually led to hyperinflation ]]> 2021-02-25 02:50:58 UTC https://padlet.com/willmottl/k3zuzr951mhiun4w/wish/1239231691 https://padlet.com/willmottl/k3zuzr951mhiun4w/wish/1239232084 inadequate food shipments in urban areas due to failing transportation: Petrograd needed 12,000 wagons of food per month, however on Jan 1917, only 6556 wagons were received.]]> 2021-02-25 02:51:14 UTC https://padlet.com/willmottl/k3zuzr951mhiun4w/wish/1239232084 brownga https://padlet.com/willmottl/k3zuzr951mhiun4w/wish/1239232795 Priests blessed those going to war, showing their dependence and belief in the church. ]]> 2021-02-25 02:51:35 UTC https://padlet.com/willmottl/k3zuzr951mhiun4w/wish/1239232795 https://padlet.com/willmottl/k3zuzr951mhiun4w/wish/1239233459 around 800,000 Russian soldiers had died by autumn 1915]]> 2021-02-25 02:51:58 UTC https://padlet.com/willmottl/k3zuzr951mhiun4w/wish/1239233459 johnsone88 https://padlet.com/willmottl/k3zuzr951mhiun4w/wish/1239233926 Anti-government sentiment and unrest had been building since 1912 when tsarist troops gunned down hundreds of striking miners at Lena River.]]> 2021-02-25 02:52:13 UTC https://padlet.com/willmottl/k3zuzr951mhiun4w/wish/1239233926 https://padlet.com/willmottl/k3zuzr951mhiun4w/wish/1239235001 Many members of the government lost faith in the Tsar after his decision to replace commander-in-chief of Russian armed forces with himself in August 1915

General Brusilov claiming "Everyone knew that Nicholas understood next to nothing about military matters"]]> 2021-02-25 02:52:40 UTC https://padlet.com/willmottl/k3zuzr951mhiun4w/wish/1239235001 brownga https://padlet.com/willmottl/k3zuzr951mhiun4w/wish/1239235603 2021-02-25 02:53:06 UTC https://padlet.com/willmottl/k3zuzr951mhiun4w/wish/1239235603 https://padlet.com/willmottl/k3zuzr951mhiun4w/wish/1239235847 inflation by 400% by late 1916]]> 2021-02-25 02:53:16 UTC https://padlet.com/willmottl/k3zuzr951mhiun4w/wish/1239235847 https://padlet.com/willmottl/k3zuzr951mhiun4w/wish/1239236712 1912 rumours of a sexual relationship between Rasputin and Tsarina Alexandra. exacerbated by a leaked letter. ]]> 2021-02-25 02:53:48 UTC https://padlet.com/willmottl/k3zuzr951mhiun4w/wish/1239236712 https://padlet.com/willmottl/k3zuzr951mhiun4w/wish/1239241870 For loyalists and conservatives, Rasputin had to be stopped before he toppled the dynasty]]> 2021-02-25 02:57:35 UTC https://padlet.com/willmottl/k3zuzr951mhiun4w/wish/1239241870 https://padlet.com/willmottl/k3zuzr951mhiun4w/wish/1239243435 Rasputin's ministerial leapfrogging worsened the unstable government 
(Sep1915-Feb 1917) went through 4 PMs, 3 War ministers and 5 Interior ministers]]> 2021-02-25 02:58:40 UTC https://padlet.com/willmottl/k3zuzr951mhiun4w/wish/1239243435 https://padlet.com/willmottl/k3zuzr951mhiun4w/wish/1239245468 ministerial leap-frogging- Alexandra and Rasputin firing and reappointing ministers in favour of the Romanovs when Nicholas was at war 1915-17]]> 2021-02-25 03:00:07 UTC https://padlet.com/willmottl/k3zuzr951mhiun4w/wish/1239245468 https://padlet.com/willmottl/k3zuzr951mhiun4w/wish/1239247315 Rasputin’s murder was intended to save tsarism – but the end of tsarism was already imminent, perhaps even inevitable.]]> 2021-02-25 03:01:27 UTC https://padlet.com/willmottl/k3zuzr951mhiun4w/wish/1239247315 https://padlet.com/willmottl/k3zuzr951mhiun4w/wish/1239248296 "Rasputin could help the little people because the important people he had helped owed him favours. ‘I can do anything’ he said, and because he could get results so often, he was believed. His confidence grew with each success and with it, his ego.”
Ted Gottfried]]> 2021-02-25 03:02:11 UTC https://padlet.com/willmottl/k3zuzr951mhiun4w/wish/1239248296 https://padlet.com/willmottl/k3zuzr951mhiun4w/wish/1239257235 fears of rasputin brinign down dynastry amongst conservative aristocrats. ]]> 2021-02-25 03:08:29 UTC https://padlet.com/willmottl/k3zuzr951mhiun4w/wish/1239257235 https://padlet.com/willmottl/k3zuzr951mhiun4w/wish/1239264866 'Rasputin became the focal point of anti-tsarist propaganda, evidence that tsarism was rotten to the core.']]> 2021-02-25 03:13:30 UTC https://padlet.com/willmottl/k3zuzr951mhiun4w/wish/1239264866