Conditions Prior to Revolution
The conditions of the working class people like the farmers and the factory workers was very deplorable as compared to other european countries. It was mainly due to the autocratic government of the Czar Nicholas II who antagonized these people day by day by his corrupt and oppressive policies. the condition of the factory workers was deplorable. They could not form any trade unions and political parties to express their grievance. Most industries were run by the private industrialists. they exploited the workers for their selfish ends. Many times these workers did not even get the minimum fixed wags. There was no limit of working hours, as a result of which they had to work 12-15 hours a day. Their conditions were so miserable that the had neither political rights nor any hope of gaining any reforms until the beginning of the Russian Revolution of 1917