Russian Revolution!!!

Tsar Nicholas II had been ruling on shaky ground for many years now. No one really liked him ever since the days of the October Manifesto when he undermined the minimal political power that had been granted to the Duma (Russia's parliament). Also, the fact that the royal court was very corrupt due to the tsar’s wife’s spiritual mentor (Rasputin) and his “self-aggrandizing schemes” "further tarnished the tsar's image" (890). When I think of Rasputin, I have to mention Anastasia because a few minutes ago it all clicked- she was the last surviving member of the Romanov family and Rasputin must have been her father’s spiritual mentor who turned evil and ended up coming back to life and trying to kill Anastasia. WEIRD! Anyways, the tsar appeared to his people as being stuck in the past and therefore not ready to continue ruling Russia. Another cause of the revolution was the overall feel of unrest from the liberal Duma and from the urban population. The urbanites were unhappy due to inflation and food/fuel shortages. The Russian army fighting in WWI was unhappy and lost their will to fight because they kept losing due to their lack of training and supplies; there were a lot of deserters. In February there was a revolution in Petrograd and this succeeded in getting rid of the tsar; however, after this success the rest was just chaos; who will lead Russia now? The soviets? The Duma? The Bolsheviks (under Lenin’s lead) ended up taking control and electing a Constituent Assembly, nationalizing banks, giving workers control of factories, and approving the “spontaneous redistribution of the noble’s land to peasants without compensation of former owners” (891). This new government after the revolution didn’t like being in WWI and they signed the Brest-Litovsk treaty with Germany, which basically gave the win of the war on the Eastern Front to the Germans. Overall, this new government was able to come to power due to the instability of Russia and the overall political and social CHAOS!!