1917: The Russian Revolution

The Russian Revolution that occurred throughout the year in 1917 impacted the future for the Russian people by putting an end to a form of government, which had a very small chance of being successful. The Tsars abused the power of the absolute monarchy, and this type of government encouraged the Russian Revolution. There was a large difference in wealth, education, and opinion between the common people and the aristocrats. The commoners began the Russian revolution because Tsar Nicholas II was a poor ruler who used traditional methods, the government did not have a presence in many parts of its vast country so some citizens did not feel the obligated to the government, and the citizens revelled in the failures made by the government in previous