How did World War 1 help to bring about the Russian Revolution?

Question

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Answer 1

The Germans, who had been fighting the Russians, brought Lenin to Russia to lead a revolution and coup that would see the Russians leave the war.  So the idea that Lenin would withdraw Russia from the war encouraged the Germans to get him into Russia to begin the revolution.

Answer 2

Prior to the war the Russian troops were primarily responsible for the harvest.  With the war having dragged on as long as it did, there were few men to plant or harvest the crops.  The Russian people went hungry.  The Czar seemed to not hear the plea of the people and seemed to not care.  The people grew tired of both the war and the Czar.

As the war dragged on, the Germans realized a golden opportunity existed.  Having been in a two front war for years, they were being bled dry.  They hatched a plan to allow Lenin who'd been living in exile in London to pass through the lines and enter Russia.  There, they were counting on him to fan the flames of rebellion.  In doing this, it would create such a distraction that the Germans could disengage the Russians and then move their troops to the western front.  They would then announce unrestricted submarine warfare in the Atlantic and cut off both France and England of all war materiel coming in from the U.S..  This would in essence, starve out the allies and then Germany could simply drive them into the sea and then return their focus on the Russians.  The risk to all of this was that the announcement would draw the U.S. into the war.  There, they were counting on the American effort as being too little, too late.

Lenin passed over the border and into Russia and he did indeed incite the people to over throw the Czar.  Sadly (for the Germans), the fever of revolt also swept over the troops moving off the Russian front, infecting the civilian populace who was equally as tired and then ultimately infecting those on the Western Front.  Germany lost the war and Russia went communist.

Answer 3

During WW1 the russians were getting slaughtered because of the Czars ignorance to train and eqipped them better and before the war there were many different examples of the peoples hate for them. The Czars were spending to much money on the war and the people were suffering because of it. They also would call for peace. These were the final causes for the revolution.