FEB/MARCH REV 1917

Question 1

14th February 1917

Answer 1

100,000 workers from 58 factories strike in Petrograd

Question 2

26th February 1917

Answer 2

Rodzianko described the revolution as “anarchy”

Question 3

Issue of Bolshevik leadership

Answer 3

All major Bvks in exile e.g Stalin, Martov, Trotsky

Question 4

When was “Order No. 1” published

Answer 4

1st March 1917

Question 5

What was Order No 1?

Answer 5

First official degree stated by the Petrograd Soviet ordering obedience to the PS by forcing soldiers to only obey the PG when it did not contradict the PS - described by Trotsky as the “most important document to come out of the F.R”

Question 6

Long-term Causes

Answer 6

-1905 Russo-Japanese war embarrassing loss of 8 battleships and over 70,000 soldiers; mutiny on battleship Potemkin in 1905
-Widespread poverty: inflation at 200%
-The Tsar and his autocracy: Heavy taxes levied on peasants, which they couldn’t afford due to successive harvest failures

Question 7

Short-term causes

Answer 7

-WW1: Losses at Tannenburg and Masuria led to 6 million losses in two years
-Tsarina + Rasputin: paranoia surrounding the Tsarina who was “devoid of all charm”
-Loss of morale: 3 guns per two soldiers, 34,000 desertions monthly

Question 8

Key figures in Provisional Govt

Answer 8

-Prince Lvov (wealthy member of Zemstvo and noble)
-Grand Duke Mikhail gave blessing

Question 9

Which political groups comprised the Petrograd Soviet?

Answer 9

Mensheviks, Bolsheviks and SRs

Question 10

What proportion out of 42 of the senior committee of the P.S were workers?

Answer 10

7/42

Question 11

What PG declaration led Milyukov (leader of Constitutional Democracy) to resign

Answer 11

1917 Announcement that the war would continue

Question 12

Why was the war an issue for the PG?

Answer 12

Terribly unpopular - 34,000 desertions monthly, riots and FebRev - but risked foreign allyship and territorial losses