On 1918, Germany agrees to sign an armistice with the United Kingdom and France, after losing the first World War. After the following of the armistice, Germany's wartime leaders fled to Holland. Holland considered being a safe place to exile for the German leaders being neighbour to their own country. Germany's Emperor Kaiser Wilhelm shortly after the end of war forced to abdicate. Kaiser getting an ultimatum from its government fled across the border into Holland.
The working conditions of the growing Russian industrial class in St. Petersburg and Moscow "<span>c. Were terrible and left the workers receptive to revolutionary propaganda," since there were no laws that protected workers' rights or safety at this time. </span>
