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Firstly the food shortages took their toll. How can any leader expect a hungry nation to be a peaceful one. The problem lay not in the fact that Russia simply did not have enough land, but in the fact that it lay rotting by the side of the unmanned railways, and the fields were, in the main part left fallow, because of the sheer lack of workers in t Russia. Excessive over militarisation by the Tsar had left with a vacuum of 13 million jobs unfilled, in industry, logistics and industry, which in turn had repercussions on the war. One Rouble could buy one sixth of the food in 1917 it could four years ago. Thus people grew hungry, and hungry people inevitably b