Events of the Feb Rev 1917

Question 1

14th February 1917

Answer 1

• 100,000 workers on strike in Petrograd from 58 factories
• News of bread rationing led to queues & violent exchanges
• Police Attacked

Question 2

22nd February 1917

Answer 2

• 20,000 workers locked out of Putilov steel works by management after pay talks collapsed
• The workers went on strike

Question 3

23rd February 1917

Answer 3

• International Women’s Day
• 90,000 workers on strike. 50 factories closed
• Workers joined march for women from suburbs to city centre
• City in chaos, 240,000 on the streets
• Order restored by desperate police force (no loss of life)

Question 4

25th Feb 1917

Answer 4

• 250,000 on strike
• Petrograd on standstill (All major factories and shops closed)
• Violence escalated as Shalfeev tried to control strikers
• He was dragged from his horse, beaten and shot
• Civilians killed by soldiers & Cossacks refused to attack strikers

Question 5

26th February 1917

Answer 5

• Rodzianko (Duma President) sent Tsar a telegram, warning of the situation in Petrograd
• Nicholas ignored the warning & ordered the Duma to dissolve the next day

Question 6

27th February 1917

Answer 6

• Tsar ordered commander of Pet military district to restore order by force
• 66,000 soldiers mutinied and joined protesters, arming them
• Police HQ attacked
• Army’s high command stopped troops from restoring order & were told to join the Duma
• Revolutionaries intended to take over government

Question 7

28th February 1917

Answer 7

• Nicholas II left military HQ Volynskii regiment to Petrograd
• Sent telegram to Rodzianko to share power with Duma
• Reply “The measures you propose are too late. The time for them has gone. There is no return”

Question 8

1st March 1917

Answer 8

Pet Sov say they would recognise prov gov

Question 9

2nd March 1917

Answer 9

Nicholas Abdicates; prov gov formed