The Russo-Japanese War was fought between the global giant Russia, and the newly modernized Japan over imperial ambitions in Manchuria and Korea. The war lasted between 1904 and 1905, and completed shocked everyone. The war resulted in the humiliation of the Russian people, and led them to not only lose confidence in their ruler, Tsar Nicholas II but caused great economic, political, and military conflicts for Russia. Due to this very reason, the war was held partially responsible for the outbreak.
The war highlighted and showed the weakness of the Russian military and decreased nationalism within the country. According to research from Yoji Koda’s Naval War College Review, the “Russian government sent a fleet to Port Arthur and Taliesin” …show more content…
This meant that the nation lacked the required money to solve problems consisting in the present state of Russia. Without required funding for running the government as well as keeping the population stable was part of the why the economic crisis was responsible for the outbreak of 1905. The war cost an absurd amount of money from the country, as most wars do, which was made worse when Russia struggled to obtain money from invaded territories throughout the war. As said by Peter Lindert, and Steven Nafziger, Russia was economically unstable as the military defeat and other conflicts arising at the time led to “unexceptional income inequality” (Lindert and Nafziger, 768) especially when compared to other world powers at the time such as England, and France. This was another source of the downfall of nationalism as it led the Russian people to feel more humiliated in their country Furthermore, the way Russia was headed made it even more impossible for the government to support living and working conditions without required money. The inability of Russia's government to solve conflicts was another factor to the decrease in nationalism due to the fact that nothing was being solved as the government had limited resources to do so. Russia’s economic crisis led the country to even greater problems regarding the downfall of nationalism, increase poverty, and other …show more content…
It caused many problems for Russia not only economically, but also politically. Although it was important, most of the defeats, occurred after the outbreak/revolution had already began. The most important effects of the war occurred after the outbreak’s start, which only added onto the problem, not causing it. Besides the Russo-Japanese war, there were other deciding factors such as economic troubles in rural areas between landowners and peasants, the lack of industrialisation and the growth of opposition towards the Tsar. These events were important as they provided more to the start of the outbreak unlike the Russo-Japanese war as they showed issues regarding Russia and were able to start an outbreak all by themselves. To conclude, the Russo-Japanese War in in some sort of way responsible for the outbreak in Russia in 1905, but was not the predominant cause of the Revolution
The war highlighted and showed the weakness of the Russian military and decreased nationalism within the country. According to research from Yoji Koda’s Naval War College Review, the “Russian government sent a fleet to Port Arthur and Taliesin” …show more content…
This meant that the nation lacked the required money to solve problems consisting in the present state of Russia. Without required funding for running the government as well as keeping the population stable was part of the why the economic crisis was responsible for the outbreak of 1905. The war cost an absurd amount of money from the country, as most wars do, which was made worse when Russia struggled to obtain money from invaded territories throughout the war. As said by Peter Lindert, and Steven Nafziger, Russia was economically unstable as the military defeat and other conflicts arising at the time led to “unexceptional income inequality” (Lindert and Nafziger, 768) especially when compared to other world powers at the time such as England, and France. This was another source of the downfall of nationalism as it led the Russian people to feel more humiliated in their country Furthermore, the way Russia was headed made it even more impossible for the government to support living and working conditions without required money. The inability of Russia's government to solve conflicts was another factor to the decrease in nationalism due to the fact that nothing was being solved as the government had limited resources to do so. Russia’s economic crisis led the country to even greater problems regarding the downfall of nationalism, increase poverty, and other …show more content…
It caused many problems for Russia not only economically, but also politically. Although it was important, most of the defeats, occurred after the outbreak/revolution had already began. The most important effects of the war occurred after the outbreak’s start, which only added onto the problem, not causing it. Besides the Russo-Japanese war, there were other deciding factors such as economic troubles in rural areas between landowners and peasants, the lack of industrialisation and the growth of opposition towards the Tsar. These events were important as they provided more to the start of the outbreak unlike the Russo-Japanese war as they showed issues regarding Russia and were able to start an outbreak all by themselves. To conclude, the Russo-Japanese War in in some sort of way responsible for the outbreak in Russia in 1905, but was not the predominant cause of the Revolution