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Reg Flag was a series about the Russian Revolution. Russia faced famine in the years leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917. Hungry peasants were unhappy peasants, and even Lenin recognized that this would encourage mass support for overthrow of the monarchy. An unpopular war reversed the economic boom that had entered at the beginning of the century, and starving peasants resorted to crime and revolt. Promises from political parties to enact change encouraged many to jump on the revolutionary bandwagon. Both urban and rural workers began to expect more freedoms and observations of human rights by employers and the government. Bolshevik and other political party members stirred up social unrest and gave it political spin. The Duma, or Russian government, was established and dissolved without any real consideration from the tsar. This made apparent to the people that Tsar Nicholas did not take the Duma seriously and would not give in to peasant demands