1917 REVOLUTION

Question 1

23rd February

Answer 1

Women’s Day Parade

90,000 qorkers on strike, 50 factories closed
c240,000 on the streets

Question 2

25th February

Answer 2

GENERAL STRIKE

• Petrograd at standstill = 250,000 strikers
• Major factories and shops closed
• No newspapers/public transport
• Cossaks refused to attack strikers

Question 3

27th February

Answer 3

Duma Committee + Petrograd Soviet Formed:

• 66,000 soldiers mutiny
• Duma sets up 12 man prov govt. committee to takeover
• Army’s high command supports Duma
• Revolutions set up Petrograd Soviet

Question 4

1st March

Answer 4

ORDER NO.1

-Soldiers and workers should agree with prov govt. only if Soviets have consented to that policy

Question 5

2nd March

Answer 5

ABDICATION OF TSAR, PROVISIONAL GOVT. FORMED

Question 6

3rd April

Answer 6

Lenin returns to Petrograd

APRIL THESES:

• Power to be transferred to Soviets
• War to be brought to an immediate end
• Land taken over by state and given to peasants

Question 7

2nd May

Answer 7

Milyukov resigns as Minister for War - PROVISIONAL GOVT. IN CRISIS

Question 8

5th May

Answer 8

Coalition of govt. of socialists and Kadets formed

Question 9

3rd June

Answer 9

First All-Russian Congress of Soviets begins

Question 10

16th June

Answer 10

Launch of military offensive

Question 11

3-4th July

Answer 11

JULY DAYS

• grain prices doubled in Petrograd between Feb-June
• shortages of fuel and materials forced 586 factories to close
• 20,000 armed sailors (Kronstadt) joined workers on the streets
• Rioting on streets, catalysed by failed summer offensive

Question 12

5-6th July

Answer 12

Bolsheviks arrested

Question 13

8th July

Answer 13

Kerensky becomes PM at head of new coalition govt.

“Bolshevik’s moment had passed”

Question 14

26-30th Aug

Answer 14

KORNILOV AFFAIR

-Kornilov appointed Commander-in-Chief
-Attempted coup
Kerensky released Bolsh prisoners, arming them to fight Kornilov = helped Bolsh’s campaign

Question 15

9th Sept

Answer 15

Bolsh majority in Petrograd soviet

Question 16

7th Oct

Answer 16

Lenin returns to Petrograd

Question 17

10th October

Answer 17

Bolshevik CC confirms decision to seize power:

• Kerensky sends radical units out of city - Bolsh claimed he was allowing Germans to take control
• Set up ‘Military Revolutionary Committee’ under Trotsky and Dzerzhinsky

Question 18

25-26 OCTOBER

Answer 18

BOLSH SEIZE POWER:

• Arrested remaining power of Provisional govt.
• ‘Revolution’ announced at 2nd congress of Soviets
• Armed soldiers take over key buildings - met with little opposition