c. How far was the Tsar weakened by the First World War?
Although there was evidence that discontent with the Tsarist regime was increasing up to 1914 with political opposition, revolutionary violence, urban strikes and peasant risings there was a surge of nationalism across Russia and support from the Tsar with the outbreak of the First World War. However, by March 1917 the regime had been overthrown in a popular revolution. How far was the Tsar weakened by the First...