All of the Following Reasons Help Explain the Fall of the Tsar

question 15

Multiple Choice

All of the following reasons help explain the fall of the tsar in March 1917 except:

• A) the costly military defeats and the food shortages.
• B) the discontent with the influence Rasputin had on the imperial family.
• C) the Bolshevik revolutionary activity in St. Petersburg.
• D) the refusal of the Russian army to back the tsar.

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