Tell about Russian Civil War ?

capital were left with his wife Alexandra. However, Alexandra's relationship with Grigori Rasputin, and her German background, further discredited the dynasty's authority. Nicholas had been repeate

failed to remove him. Rumors and accusations about Alexandra and Rasputin appeared one after another; Alexandra was even accused of harboring treasonous sympathies towards Germ

damage that Rasputin's influence was doing to Russia's war effort and to the monarchy led to Rasputin's eventual murder by a group of nobles, led by Prince Felix Yusupov and Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich, a cousin of the Tsar, in the early morning of Saturday 17 December 1916 (O.S.

As the government failed to produce supplies, mounting hardship created massive riots and rebellions. With Nicholas away at the front from 191

tional reforms to fend off revolution, Nicholas continued to bury himself away at the Staff HQ (Stavka) 600 kilometres (400 mi) away at Moghilev, leavin

and insurrection.[89]

By early 1917, Russia was on the verge of total and utter collapse. The army had taken 15 million men from the farms and food prices had soa

times as much. The severe winter dealt the railways, overburdened by emergency shipments of coal and supplies, the final blow.[89]

Russia began the war with 20,000 locomotives; by 1917, 9,000 were in service, while the number of serviceable railway wagons had dwindl

00 locomotives burst their boilers and nearly 60,000 wagons were immobilised. In Petrograd, supplies of flour and fuel had all but disappeared.[89] War-time prohibition of alcohol was enacted by Nicholas

treasury and funding of the war due to the treasury now being deprived of alcohol taxes.[90]


One of the last photographs of Nicholas II, showing him at Tsarskoye Selo after his abdication in March 1917
On 23 February 1917 in Petrograd, a combin

nd acute food shortages caused people to start to break shop windows to get bread a

treets, red banners appeared and the crowds chanted "Down with the German wo