- harsh conditions of daily life for the peasants
- the peasants were not given a say in the government
- blood Sunday produced a mass of killings
- because of bloody Sunday, anger erupted from the russian people
- World War I was the last straw for the people; they didn’t understand why the were dying for someone who wouldn’t even help them get food when they were starving
- during World War I they ran quickly out of food and supplies; buildings and cities were destroyed
- Karl Marx’s ideas helped influence people’s opinions of the tsarist system
- Rasputin’s closeness to the Imperial family made the people view the tsarist family differently
- most businesses were owned by the tsar
- the tsar Nicholas II didn’t care about keeping the country fit for survival