Once they arrived in the prisons, they were subjected to squalid conditions and torture with minimum food provisions and excessive work. The prisoners were congested into small rooms and the guards were inhuman and cruel such that they did not care for the medical attention of even the most critical conditions like heart attack (Committee of The Judiciary U.S. Senate, 1972)
The mode of transportation to the region was by walking through several miles of snow since there were no vehicles. Many prisoners ended up dead and were eaten by scavengers even before they reached the prisons in Siberia (Mekler J., 2015)
The prisoners who were brought to Siberia due to opposing the ruling class often had their families brought with them, people who were completely innocent yet died in their thousands. In Siberia, there was no proper system of holding the prisoners that was put in place but all were bundled into the same prisons, the prisoners of war and the political prisoners all received same treatment (Nachtigal R. & Radauer L., 2015)
The food given to them for the journey was scarce, the shoes that they received wore out fast even before they reached the prison and the road was harsh. Once they entered the labor camps and the prisons, the conditions did not improve, the prisoners were infected by severe killer diseases like Typhoid and dysentery (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2015) and also massively died of starvation in their millions (Boytinck P
Autocratic Russia could not have continued in tsarist form as there were too many forces at work in Russia at the end of the 19th century and early 20th century. The Bolsheviks were too well funded to fail and the will of the tsar was out of favor with the liberal ideology that had spread throughout Russia and convinced the people that a new form of government would lead to better times (Rabinowitch 81)
In 1917 Russia suffered two revolutions, which resulted in a drastic change of leadership. Tsarist Russia became Lenin's Soviet Russia and the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was signed shortly thereafter in March 1918, which was "overshadowed" by the front line units working out their own "negotiations" with the Germans (Wildman 78)