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Source Analysis ~
a) Source 1 gives me the picture that the Empresses attitude towards Czar was that she tells him what to do / gave him instructions on how to run the country, making the decisions of the country for Czar; maybe she thought he was incapable of running the country. Czaritsa comes across as a very over powering figure and or because she is German still helping Germans.
b) The postcard in source 2 gives the picture that Russia was a very command and conquer, with the way it was run. The Czar is in the middle to symbolize that he is the head of Russia and that his very important to the country, yet the comment on the side tells us that the postcard was printed before all of Russia's defeats and food shortages made the Russian people unhappy.
c) In Source 3 Brusilov (Southwest Front) tells us that soldiers refused to fight, and there were cases of mutiny and several men were shot.
Ruzski (Northern Front) tells us It also tells us that the Northern Front did not receive its meat, it also states that "the general opinion is that we have everything but it is impossible to get anything for example in Petrograd the poor man is in need but the rich man may have everything" meaning that Russia was in need of a big change towards the way its soldiers and people were being treated and starved (effectively).
Shuvaev (Minister of war) tells us at the start of the war they had 1,300,000 soldiers to feed and now then they had only ten million to feed. But also that the soldiers were getting majority of the food but the people who weren't in the Army but were still working for the Army got nothing.
Finally Gurko(Commander of the sixth Army) tells us that they had plenty of meat in Siberia but could not get it to their troops because they would need 300 trains that Russia did not have, but to make matters worse the rail lines were in bad condition because the people who would work on them were sent to war. The view in source 3 support the comment of source 2 because source 2 tells us other the massive defeats and food shortages and source 3 supports that by explaining why they had no food and in an around abouts way why they were being defeated (cases of mutiny and soldiers refusing to fight) but when it comes to the postcard in source 2 it is very miss leading because to portrays Russia as being a tough country to defeat...