1917 Feb Revolution

Question 1

What was the social situation like in Russia in 1917?

Answer 1

Unrest in towns/countryside, inflation, food shortages, workers demanded an end to the war, rent in Petrograd increased x3

Question 2

How many working days were lost in 1916 to strikes?

Answer 2

3/4 million working days

Question 3

Why did the peasantry resent the Government?

Answer 3

Never pro-war, lacked a sense of Russian identity

Question 4

What class were majority of conscripts from?

Answer 4

Peasantry

Question 5

How many men were in the army and how many were killed in 1914-17?

Answer 5

15m men in the army, 2m killed, 5m wounded/imprisoned

Question 6

Why were people in the countryside unhapppy?

Answer 6

Women/children/elderly resented the extra workload they had to do e.g., farm work

Question 7

What were soldiers wives known as?

Answer 7

Soldatki

Question 8

What were Soldatkis given from the Government

Answer 8

An allowance whilst their husband served in the army, didn’t rise with inflation

Question 9

What happened on the anniversary of Bloody Sunday in 1917?

Answer 9

Half of Petrograds workers striked

Question 10

What amount of Petrograds workers were women?

Answer 10

20%

Question 11

What did the socialists encourage workers to do on International Womens day?

Answer 11

Hold anti-government demonstrations

Question 12

What happened on the 23rd Feb?

Answer 12

International women’s day - textiles women and engineering men in the Vyborg district striked against food shortages

Question 13

What happened on the 24th Feb 1917?

Answer 13

Protest escalated into a general strike with more than 200k workers

Question 14

What slogans were held on banners?

Answer 14

“Down with the Tsar”, “Down with the war”

Question 15

What happened on the 26th Feb 1917?

Answer 15

Agitators were arrested, hundreds of demonstrators killed

Question 16

What happened on the 27th Feb 1917?

Answer 16

Soldiers at one barrack mutinied - quickly spread to other barracks. Petrograd garrison mutinied

Question 17

When was the Provisional Committee of the Duma created?

Answer 17

27th Feb 1917

Question 18

Who dominated the Provisional Committee of the Duma?

Answer 18

Milyukov

Question 19

What did the Provisional Committee of the Duma want?

Answer 19

Restore public order and establish a new Government.

Question 20

Why was the Provisional Committees authority questioned?

Answer 20

Wasn’t democratically elected, Petrograd garrison were unwilling to listen to them - didn’t listen to orders to return their barracks

Question 21

When was the Petrograd Soviet reestablished?

Answer 21

March 1917

Question 22

Who reestablished the PS?

Answer 22

Socialist intellectuals, mostly Mensheviks

Question 23

Were the PS successful?

Answer 23

Quickly won support of the citys workers and garrison

Question 24

Why did the PS not rule?

Answer 24

Had a lack of administrative experience and had no intention of forming a Gov

Question 25

What did the Duma committee and the PS create?

Answer 25

Provisional Government

Question 26

How long would the Provisional Government rule?

Answer 26

Ruled until a new democratic constitution was created with the PS acting as a watchdog