Abdication of the Tsar?

Question 1

What type of people made up the Petrograd Soviet?

Answer 1

Soldiers and Workers

Question 2

What was Soviet Order Number 1?

Answer 2

To obey only its order and not those of the provisional government.

Question 3

What was Dual Authority?

Answer 3

Where the Petrograd Soviet and Duma were both in charge.

Question 4

Why were the peasants angry with the Tsar?

Answer 4

They demanded higher wages and shorter working hours.

Question 5

Why were the army angry with The Tsar?

Answer 5

Many people were dying and now the Tsar were blamed for this.

Question 6

Abdication of the tsar summary?

Answer 6

August 1914 Russia joined WW1
By the end of a year: 1 million Russians killed, injured or poisoned.
Tsar took control of army
Duma in charge in Russia
Winter 1916 - food shortages + 1/3 of the food reached cities
Long queues for bread
Workers on strike wanting less hours + more wages
Army told to stop them instead they refused and joined the opposition.
Duma Meg secretly and set up the provisional government
Tsar no longer in charge