What was one of the cause of revolution in Russia?

Answer 1

The first Russian revolution came in 1905. It is plausible to say that it resulted from Russia's hard defeat in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905, but this revolution also had deeper roots. Russia had been transformed very unevenly by rapid industrialization; some regions were heavily industrial, while others were hardly included in the market economy. The economic boom during the late nineteenth-century had brought negative effects in the early 1900s when demand for goods died down, prices dropped, and the working class suffered awfully high levels of unemployment. All the while, low grain prices had resulted in quite a few peasant uprisings, which along with students' energetic radical organizing, became very political.

Furthermore, as the people heard more and more about the defeats of the tsar's army/navy, they came to understand how inefficient the regime was. Middle-class subjects wanted change and radical workers held strikes and demonstrations in all the important cities.

The first key event in this Russian revolution occurred on January 22, 1905, known as "Bloody Sunday". A group of 200,000 workers and their families were led by a priest to demonstrate their grievances at the tsar's St. Petersburg palace. The guard troops killed 130 demonstrators and wounded several hundred. This further worsened the government's public image, and the general protest/revolts proceeded from here.

Answer 2

The Bolshevik Revolution was mainly an anti-war movement, in revolt against Russian involvement in WW I.