shes. These included a constitution and the establishment of the Duma,or parliament. Russia was still trying to recover from its military disaster with Japan when WW1 broke out in 1914. Russia found itself with an inadequate weapons industry and a sluggish army to pull together. By March of 1917, 10 million peasants had been recruited into military service. Peasant woman were forced off the farms and relocated into the St Petersburg factories to continue with the manufacturing in order to support the feeble war effort. Russian manpower was virtually never-ending. Russian industry, however, lacked the capacity to arm, equip and supply some 15 million men who were sent to war. The food supply decreased, in the trenches the soldiers went hungry and frequently lacked shoes or munitions, sometimes even weapons. The Russian army lost more men than any other army which ever took part in a national war – approximately two and a half million soldiers were killed. The humiliating defeats that the Russian army suffered at the hands of the Germans, who expelled it from Poland, reduced the prestige of the monarchy. After tolerating these conditions for three years, workers and soldiers began to protest and riot. They wanted Peace. They wanted Bread. And they wanted land. The czarist regime collapsed under the gigantic strain of WW1. Another main cause was the lousy economic condition of the country which made it unable to wage effort against the powerful, manufacturing Germany On February 23,1917, riots began to break out in Petrograd because of lack of food. Initially the police and army helped to stop the rioting, but later they began to leave their posts and desert. Alexander Kerensky was the Minister of Justice of the Provisional Government that was legitimized, by the manifesto written by Mikhail Alexandrovich Romanov, on March 3,1917. In April of 1917 Kerensky took on the job of Minister of War and Navy. He announced two goa...
