February Revolution Flashcards
On the …, … workers demonstrate in commemoration of Bloody Sunday
9 January 1917, 150,000 workers
International Woman’s Day March on …
23 February 1917, thousands of women march protesting for bread and equality
On the …, there are … workers on the streets
25 February 1917, 300,000 workers on the streets
Alexandrina on the Woman’s Day strikes:
“This is a hooligan movement; young people shout that there is no bread simply to create excitement…this will pass and turn calm only if the Duma behaves itself”
Bolshevik on the strikes:
“What revolution? Give the workers a pound of bread and the movement will fizzle”
Provisional Committee of the State Duma meets on:
28 February 1917
Petrograd Soviet of Soldiers’, Sailors’ and Workers’ Deputies created on…
28 February 1917
By the Soviet’s second week of existence, … members of the … deputies were soldiers
2000 members of the 3000 deputies were soldiers
The System was now called a …
‘Dual Power’ system
Article 4 of the Soviet Order 1:
“All orders on military matters by the Provisional Government are to be carried out, unless they contradict orders of the Soviet”
Pipes on the Soviet:
The PG lost control and the Soviet became “the true master of the country”
Guchkov on the PG:
“The PG has no real power of any kind… it exists only at the sufferance of the Soviet”
Nicholas II abdicates:
2 March 1917
Pipes on Nicholas II’s fall:
“Nicholas fell not because he was hated, but because he was held in contempt”
Figes on the February Revolution:
“The Romanov Regime fell under the weight of its own internal contradictions. It was not overthrown”
