long time A short-term reason is one that either strengthened dramatically during the war or it developed during the war.a) Failures in the War: This was a reason that only developed in the WWI, however the Failures against the Japanese in 1904-1905 were bad memories that created some doubts about the government. This was a Short Term cause of the revolution as the main Failures that contributed to the revolution were from 1914-1917. There were two main reasons for the Failures in 1917, one was that the Army was very poorly equipped and the other was that it had careless and incapable of victory commanders. `The War started well for Russia but the generals were careless`1 and also in August 1915 the Tsar took personal command of the army and `he was not a particularly able commander`2. As well as the Army being badly led:`The Minister of War, General Sukhomlinov, did not think much of modern methods of war. He and his generals’ favorite weapon was theBayonet. Their preferred method of attack was to storm enemy positions and destroy them inhand-to-hand combat. Against the machine guns and barbed wire of the well equipped German Army,such attacks were suicidal`3 The Russian Army also had a very old way of fighting and so it was no match for the well-equipped German Army. The other reason was that Russia’s industry was not producing enough munitions for the army and soon the Army began running out of rifles. ` By February 1915 about half of the soldiers who arrived at the front-line trenches had to wait to pick up rifles from those who were killed`4, this meant that before even a year fighting passed the Army began running out of rifles so a large amount of the troops had no rifles. Troops were also under fed (because of the reason discussed in question1) and this lowered the morale of fighting. This contributed to the revolution for many reasons. This led to strike...
