The Response to the Outbreak of the War

1. The Response to the Outbreak of the War Beattie, Mikayla, Natasha, Julia

2. Popular discontent with the political and economic circumstances forgotten. • People prayed, shouted, carried flags – Long Live Russia. • Bowed to Tsar. Repaired division between Tsar and people. • Bruce Lockhart, British vice-consul in Moscow – ‘Revolution was not even a distant possibility’. Response 1- Public Support

3. Durnovo was a member of the upper class through his role in bureaucracy. • Later became a minister of the interior under prime minister Witte. • Durnovo provided the clearest warming to Nicholas of the grave dangers involved in war. • In February 1914 he argued that Russia would be irreparably damaged whether it won or lost. • He said “If Russia lost, the financial and economic consequences of defeat can be neither calculated or foreseen.” • It will undoubtedly spell total disintegration of our entire national economy. • If Russia won the war the only benefit would be the easy defeat or the socialist movement. Response 2- Durnovo’s Warnings

4. Lenin declared the war to be merely another example of the wealthy bourgeois upper class manipulating the toiling masses for their gain. • “We summon you to a social revolution.” –Lenin • He called for the immediate formation of socialist groups that would go to the front to win over their fellow workers. • Lenin’s approach received little support. Lenin’s Condemnation