Film Lesson: Doctor Zhivago

The film Dr. Zhivago depicted the Russian revolution as a horrible time to live in Russia. Some of the reasons that Russia wanted the independence were first because they wanted to get rid of Czar Nicholas II of Russia. The reason they wanted to get rid of him was because by the spring of 1917, Russia was on the verge of total collapse. The army had taken 15 million men from the farms, so food prices had soared. The severe winter dealt with railways, overburdened by emergency shipments of coal and supplies, which would be the final blow.