There was a great deal of tension between the Russian people and the autocracy during the early 20th century, which was brought about by the poor leadership by the autocracy. The way the country was beining run was out dated and unprogressive, so as the rest of Europe was growing as a result of the industrial revolution Russia was being left behind. Russia was struggling to keep up mainly because the economy was quickly modernising and the autocratic political system was holding it back. Because of all the social and economic changes it was necessary for the political system to change, but the Tsar - who was still held up his views that he held the divine right to rule and his abilities were without flaw - would not listen to the cries of the people no matter how loud, he would simply send out the armies to scilence the people. This continued untill 1905 where things got so bad that somthing had to change.
Russia's demise was mostly brought about by the Ineptness of Tsar Nicholas II and his belief in the dying political system of autocrecy. Autocrecy is a form of abs
The agricultrial side to Russia also went through a huge changes through this industrial boom. 84% of Russian people were peasents and there just wasn't eniough land to go around. Because of the sudden swing of the countries econmy towards industry, harvests suffered and many starved due to this poorly orginised Nation. however things began to look up when reforms were introduced which allowed peasents to buy there own land, they hoped this woud cause the peasents to want to work their lands to the best of their ability using modern methods and produce more food. This worked temporeraly and produced a record harvest in 1913, and maybe could have worked permantly if it wasn't for the outbreak of The Great War. But because of the shortage of land and the promise of jobs in factories many peasents moved to the cities but the condititions weren't much better so somthing had to be done. But with an ignorant, egotistical stubborn Tsar leading the country nothing would be done unless the people took matters into their own hands.
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