The correct answer is B. the death of millions of Russians in battle. World war I began in 1914, most of the Russian army was composed of the working class and peasant men, Russia's poorest class, so the majority of these troops had to go to battle under undesirable conditions. Many of them without shoes, food, and even weapons, causing in the death of millions of Russians in battle. The Russian people then, blamed the Tsar for entering the war and getting so many of their young men killed.