... Russia, food was getting short and many of the male peasants had been conscripted in to the army. This meant that there was a shortage of farm workers and less food was produced. The Russian railway system was being used to carry supplies to the war front and this meant that food was not getting to the cities. Many of the coal and industrial factories closed, making their workers unemployed. The lack of coal and fuel in the cities meant that the people in the cities had to go cold and there was a shortage of power. As a result of the shortage of supplies, the prices of goods had to rise, but the wages were hardly going up at all. The Russian people were unable to buy the necessary things like clothes and shoes. To make things worse, workers were being made to work longer hours. Russian people began to lose ...

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