Events of The Feb/Mar Revolution Flashcards
What happens on Monday 14th February?
• 100,000 workers from 58 different factories were on strike in Petrograd •news that bread would be rationed from March 1 brought long round-the-clock queues and violent exchanges
•The police were attacked as they struggle to maintain order
What happened on Wednesday 22nd of February?
• 20,000 workers were locked out of the putilov of steel works by the management after Pay talks, collapsed
•workers in other factors went on strike in support
What happened on Thursday 23rd of February? (international women’s day)
• 90,000 workers went on strike and so factories closed
• these striking work has joined the traditional march of women from the Petrograd suburbs to the city center
• Militant students and women from bread queues joined the march
• the city descended into chaos with 240,000 on the streets
What happened on Friday, 24 February?
• 200,000 workers were on strike and the crowd overturned tsar statues, waved red flags, wore red rosettes, shouting, revolutionary slogans calling for an end to tsardom
•No specific organisation played a key role in the strike
What happened on Saturday, 25 February?
• 250,000 people (over half the capitals workforce) were on strike and petrograd was a virtual standstill
• almost all the major factories and shops were closed
• there was no newspapers and no public transport
• A band of civilians was killed by soldiers on the Nevsii prospekt but later the same day some Cossacks refused to attack a procession of strikers when ordered to do so
What happened on Sunday, 26 February?
•Rodzianko, the Dumo president, sent the tsar a telegram, warning him of the serious situation and Petrograd
• Nicholas ignored the warning in order the Duma to dissolve next day
What happened on Monday, 27 February?
• desert ordered major general Khabalov, commander of the Petrograd military district, to restore order by military force
• soldiers were ordered onto the street and around 40 demonstrators in the city center were killed
• a mutiny began in the Volynkii regiment, where is Sergeant shot his commanding officer dead
• 66,000 soldiers mutinied and joined the protesters arming them with 40,000 rifles
• police headquarters were attacked and prisons were opened
• later in the day, the Duma he held a meeting despite the tsars orders and set up a 12 man provisional committee to take over the government
• the army’s high command, which had already ordered troops to march to the capital To restore stability, changed their mind and ordered them to halt and give support to the Duma committee
• the same evening revolutionaries set up a Soviet, which also intended to take over the government
• began to organize food and supplies for the city
What happened on Tuesday, 28 February February?
• Nicholas the second left his military headquarters at the Volynskii regiment and started to make his way to Petrograd
• he sent a telegram to Rodzianko, offering to share power with the Duma
• the leader replied “ the measures you propose are too late. The time for them has gone. This is no return”
