Thursday, October 28, 2010
pg 86-98 q's
Yo peeps what up? So I wanted to bring up the point that the peoples opinions don't always matter. One example of this is the people in Russia. Through out the course of the war there were many anti-war strikes. On March 10 1917 there was a riot. Tsarist troops were ordered to open fire. 40 civilians were killed. The Tsar had hoped to end all strikes with this act, but in reality it only encouraged more people to join the demonstrations. I feel like continuing with the war while the people were striking only added more problems to the war efforts because while the soldiers were fighting on the fronts they also needed to control the civilians. In addition to the people striking there was also 300,000 factory workers that went on strikes. With out the factory workers it would make it hard to gather needed supplies. I believe that continuing with the war without the support of the people caused more problems for Russia than they needed.
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I think this is a very valid point, because when people are striking nothing is being produced, so how is a country supposed to funtion in a war if they're in that situation? It seems like things wouldn't work out so well, but I think this just shows the power that the political and military leaders had at the time. They did what they wanted to do, not what the people wanted them to do, and they didn't seem to care too much about anything else, including how the country would function. Losers.
ReplyDeleteI agree with what ya'll are saying. Despite the lack of support, Russia continued to engage itself in war. How? Why did they continue? A question that I brought up in my blog was why were the people so against it? The major riots didn't begin until the war was nearly over. At that point the U.S. was involved, and things should have been looking up for Russia. So why the protests? They made it through the worst.
ReplyDeleteRussia's involvement in the war, probably more than any other factor, fueled the Russian Revolution. So in that sense, the tsar's unwillingness to listen to the people cost him his life, and the entire Russian political system was history. Once Lenin took over, he pulled Russia out of the war in response to public opinion. Also, it was after Russia withdrew from WWI that the US entered.
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