What economic and social problems did world war one cause for russia and czar nicholas

-over threw one of the royal family's who ruled for 300 years +
-established one of world's first communist governments
- as Nicholas lost his control hunger and poverty struck, and obviously businesses suffered with the change of government ruling you can imagine if the government wasn't in favor of a certain business they could strip it in the blink of an eye.

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