Question

Summarize how war and social unrest pushed Russia into a revolution.

Answer 1

RA RA RASPUTIN, LOVER OF THE RUSSIAN QUEEN ~

Answer 2

But seriously, War and Social Unrest caused people to actually protest on the streets and revolt like in the March Revolutions .. They demanded a new social order and eventually Lenin / Trotsky came to power and formed the USSR.

Answer 3

Just adding to wach's answer, even before WW1, people were far from happy with the autocratic rule of Nicholas II. The guy was an okay person, as some accounts go, good to his family and so on.

But he was a terrible administrator and had no idea how to run a country as vast as Russia. Instead of listening to the people and trying to do something to reform the government, he was more interested in taking steps to keep things as they were by refusing to make any changes. Unfortunately, this also led to a number of terrible incidents such as the shooting of peaceful demonstrators by soldiers several years earlier who simply wanted Nicholas II to hear them out by marching to the palace.

When WW1 plunged Russia into war, further disasters on the front humiliated the country and further demoralized the military. Nicholas II attempted to show that he wanted to do something to try and change things by traveling to the front, but his efforts were seen mostly as a farce by generals that didn't have much faith in his leadership. And by that time, so much discontent had been added to the woodpile that it only took Lenin's spark to turn it into a revolution.