Weekly Summary

It seems to me that the main focus of the previous week was Russia, and the actions of the Tsars that led up to the Russian Revolution. The main problem the tsars faced was that they were trying to keep their country conservative rather than give any ground to the rebels, and they were not skilled enough to balance the interests of the nobles, the peasantry, and the working classes. Essentially, their goal was originally to create bad conditions for the peasantry in the countryside to get many of them to move to the cities, but while some moved to the cities many were less proactive and merely whined about the poor conditions, until ultimately the whining ended up removing the tsars from power.