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February Revolution Flashcards

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Number of Petrograd workers demonstrating on anniversary of Bloody Sunday

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150,000

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Issue with bread rationing

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Long queues and violent exchanges as a result of it

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Putilov steelworks

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20,000 workers were locked out and workers in other factories went on strike in support

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International Women’s day

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90,000 workers went on strike and joined in with the traditional March for women, led to 240,000 marching

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Evidence of spontaneous uprisings

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200,000 workers went on strike on Friday 24 February and there was no obvious organisation by any political parties

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Shalfeev

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In charge of the mounted police, was dragged from his horse and shot

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Cossack’s sympathy for the demonstrators

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Refused to shoot the people on strike

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Rodzianko telegram

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Warned the Tsar of the developing situation in Petrograd, but was ignored

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Tsar’s order to the Duma

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Ordered it to dissolve on Sunday 26 February

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Tsar’s orders to Khabalov

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Restore order by military force, resulting in 40 demonstrators being killed

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Volynskii regiment

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Soldiers joined the protesters, arming them with rifles

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Tsar’s second telegram

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Offered to share power with the Duma, but was refused

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Duma meeting on 27 feb

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Set up a Provisional Government and were supported by the Army’s high command

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Petrograd Soviet

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Set up the same day as the Provisional Government which intend to take overt he government

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La Marseillaise

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The French National anthem sung on Friday 24 February during a demonstration

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Bolshevik leader absentees

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Lenin and Martov were in Zurich and Leon Trotsky was in New York

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Revolutionary activists during the February Revolution

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A Liberal group including Milyukov and Guchkov (leader of Octobrists) were present at the time

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Order No 1

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A charter of soldier’s rights which stated that all units had to elect a deputy to the Soviet and agree to the political control of the Petrograd Soviet, the Military Commission of the Duma was to be obeyed only if it agreed with the Soviet’s orders

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Kerensky role in the Petrograd Soviet

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Worked as part of the executive committee on the Soviet

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Who did the Nicholas II name the new Tsar as

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Grand Duke Mikhail

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When did the Tsar abdicate

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2 March and was placdd under house arrest

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Soviet’s role outsdei of Petrograd

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Rebellious groups set up their own Soviets, and places such as Finland and Ukraine declared themselves as independent

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All Russian Congress of Soviets

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Met in Petrograd in June 1917 with representatives from 350 provinces

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Leader of PG

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Was headed by Prince Lvov, a wealthy aristocrat

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Issue with the PG

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Contained mainly wealthy landowners and supporters of the constitutional monarchy such as liberals, moderate socialists and Kadets

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Views of the PG

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A self appointed committee of the qwealthy

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Composition of the Petrograd Soviet

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Mainly radical socialist intellectuals, Mensheviks and Social revolutionaries, with a small number of Bolsheviks

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Dual Auhtority

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The agreement between the provisional government and the Petrograd soviet to work together

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Agreements made as part of Dual Authority

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Civil liberties, freedom to organise strikes and there election of a Constituent Assembly

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Disagreements in dual authority over the war

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Pg wanted an all out effort to win the war, whereas, the Soviet wanted it to end as quickly as possible

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Milyukov’s announcement to continue fighting

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Unleashed a ström of protesting forcing Milyukov and Guchkov to resign from the PG

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Kerensky

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Replaced Prince Lvov as chairman of the PG

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Why were elections constantly postponed

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The PG didnt want to because it was clear that the Social Revolutionaries would win the support of the peasants and the Bolsheviks would attract the support of workers in the cities

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