s linked with1) Strikes:2) Failures in the war:3) Tsarina and Rasputin:4) Mutiny in the ArmyFood shortages led to Strikes as people were underfed, so demanded bread, more strikes were forming as people demanded an end to the War because of the heavy losses which could be blamed on the ill feeding of the soldiers and the strikes that paralyzed industry, therefore the army had no recourses being produced for the fighting, also many soldiers got fed up of being ill treated and so many soldiers deserted from the Army and this led to more Failures as there were less men to fight. The Failures in the war could then partly share the blame for the Tsarina and Rasputin, who were left in charge of the country as the Tsar left to take control of the Army thinking he could do better, not only did the losses increase, but the Tsarina and Rasputin created chaos on the home front as they displaced able ministers with hopeless ones. This caused distrust to the Tsar and led to more strikes, as people wanted the German Tsarina to be put down, people also thought that the Tsarina and Rasputin had an affair and that the Tsarina was under great influence by the Rasputin and so the people began distrusting them and demanding them to be brought down. Failures in the war lead to the mutiny in the army as the troops began doubting the Tsar, as they were being underfed and ill equipped and so blamed this on the Tsar as they thought he left bad leaders in charge of Russia, they also died without the chance of victory against the Central Powers and so began to mutiny. Food Shortages were to be blamed for the Mutiny in the Army as soldiers got fed up of going to battle hungry, and ill equipped as food shortages created strikes that paralyzed the production of munitions. The troops had no chance of victory against the well equipped Germans and Austrians. 2) A long-term reason is a reason that was going on for a very long time and so it was building up tension for a...
