1917 Revolutions

Question 1

Timeline of the Feb-March Revolution

Answer 1

Mar 7 - Steelworkers Strike
Mar 8 - Int’ll Women’s Day, Bread Riots
Mar 9 -10 - Strikes and demonstrations, Tsarina controls the army
Mar 11 - Troops fire on crowds, Duma is dissolved
Mar 12 - Soldiers mutiny, join riots
Mar 13 - Tsar controls the army
Mar 14 - Tsar arrested
Mar 15 - Tsar abdicates

Question 2

Quotations from the Feb-March Revolution

Answer 2

“Peace, bread, land” “All power to the soviets”

Question 3

Causes of the Feb-March Revolution

Answer 3

Why Was There A Disaster in 1917
-Weakness of Russia
-WWI - Army poorly led, equipped, 200k die at Tanenberg and Masurian Lakes. 15m men were from farms.
-Tsar’s Mistakes - Tsarina controls army, then Tsar, Feb chaos in gov’t, fails to act on it
-Army abandons Tsar - Mar 8 riots, Mar 12 mutiny
-Duma abandons Tsar - Mar 13, Duma forces Tsar to abdicate.

Question 4

Causes of the Oct-Nov Revolution

Answer 4

Gov’t That’s Provisional Will Be Killed
-Government - Petrograd Soviet powerful, Order No. 1 a problem
- Terrible Conditions - War hunger inflation
- Peasants - Taking land, killing nobles, troops are sent in
- War - Prov gov continues war, desertions, death squads
- Bolsheviks - April Theses, state ownership of factories, July Days riots
- Kornilov - An attempted right-wing coup in Aug 1917

Question 5

Timeline of the Oct-Nov Revolution

Answer 5

Oct - Lenin returns to Petrograd
Oct 10 - Bolshevik central committee seizes power
Oct 20 - Bolshevik Revolutionary Military Committee
Oct 23-25 - Red guard takes key points
Oct 25 - First all Russian congress of soviets
Oct 26 - Congress elects People Comisars, Decree on land and decree on peace