[dfwgator]

That’s the irony, according to Marx, the Communist revolution was to take place in the Industrial countries, a country could not become socialist until it had a significant proletarian population in an industrialized country. Russia was nowhere near that point in 1917.

[wagglebee]

I think the main catalyst is that the great majority of the Russian people were close to starving at any given point while the nobility had wealth that equaled or even surpassed that the of the British and German nobility.

The average Russian didn't give a damn about the Balkans and didn't understand why the Tsar was willing to go to war over it.