How World War I Fueled the Russian Revolution
Ineffective leadership and a weak infrastructure during the war led to the demise of the Romanov dynasty.
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Ineffective leadership and a weak infrastructure during the war led to the demise of the Romanov dynasty.
World War I saw the crumbling of empires, and among those to collapse was the Russian empire of Czar Nicholas II. When Nicholas declared war against Germany and Austria-Hungary in July 1914, he was absolute ruler of a realm of nearly 150 million people that stretched from Central Europe to the Pacific and the edge of Afghanistan to the Arctic.