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What was the response to the outbreak of war?. By Hadi and Dhanush. Contents:. Public Response Durnovo Warning Lenin’s Condemnation. Public Response. There was a huge wave a patriotism and support from the Russians when the war was declared in 1914 .
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What was the response to the outbreak of war? By Hadiand Dhanush
Contents: • Public Response • Durnovo Warning • Lenin’s Condemnation
Public Response • There was a huge wave a patriotism and support from the Russians when the war was declared in 1914 . • The people were extremely supportive and excited about the prospect of war with Germany . • Popular discontent with the political and economical problems were all forgotten and the support and excitement of the Russians repaired the division between the Tsar Nicholas and his people.
Durnovo’s Warning • Who was Durnovo: • Durnovo was a member of the upper class through his role of Bureaucracy • Later he became a Minister under PM Sergei Witte
What did he do: • He warned the Tsar Nicholas II of the possible consequences of going to war • He tried to argue that , even if Russia came out victorious, it would irreparably damaged whether it won or lost. • He declared, “ The Financial and economic consequences of defeat can be neither calculated nor foreseen, and will undoubtedly spell the total disintegration of our national economy”
"Russia will be flung into hopeless anarchy, the issue of which will be hard to foresee … There will be agrarian troubles, as a result of agitation for compensating the soldiers with additional land allotments; there will be labor troubles during the transition from the probably increased wages of war time to normal schedules; and this, it is to be hoped, will be all, so long as the wave of the German social revolution has not reached us. But in the event of defeat, the possibility of which in a struggle with a foe like Germany cannot be overlooked, social revolution in its most extreme form is inevitable."
Lenin’s Condemnation • Lenin was against the war. • He declared it to be “merely another example of the wealthy bourgeois upper class manipulating the toiling masses for their gain.” • He encouraged the Russians to join the social revolution that would negotiate with the Germans and win them over instead of fighting. • His approach received very little support amidst the wave of patriotism .
His approach received very little support amidst the wave of patriotism. • British Vice-Consul, Bruce Lockhart wrote that “revolution was not even a distant possibility.”
