The February Revolution was the first of the two revolutions that took place in 1917 and that ended for good the tsarist Russian Empire.
The revolution emerged near Petrograd (current St.Peterburg) that was the capital of Russia at the time. Russian people was disatisfied with the monarchy and the food rationings. Mass demonstrations were celebrated and there were violent confrontations against the police and gendarmes that remained loyal to the tsar (while the army sided with the revolutionaires). <u>This conflict led to the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II and to the end of the Romanov dynasty. </u>
The conceiver of one of mankind's coolest ideas for boundless clean energy died last week. He was 90 and first published his ideas in 1968, a year before NASA put a man on the moon. In its December 1972 issue, Popular Science described engineer Peter Glaser's proposal:
Answer:
the war in Afghanistan had drained the nation's resources
Explanation:
Mikhail Gorbachev is often seen as the person responsible for the breaking up of the Soviet Union, and to some point that is true. The Soviet economy started to stagnate during the 1970's, and one reason for that was that the economy was drained because of the war in Afghanistan. In order to try and boost the economy, Gorbachev decided to make some reforms, most noticeably the Glasnost and Perestroika reforms. Instead of boosting the economy, these reforms actually gave the platform and freedom for the Soviet states to break apart from the Soviet Union, and so it happened at the beginning of the 1990's.
