February revolution

Question 1

How many workers marched in commemoration of Bloody Sunday on 9 January 1917?

Answer 1

150,000 in Petrograd

Question 2

What happened on 21 February 1917?

Answer 2

Putilov steel factory shuts down, forcing thousands of workers onto the streets

Question 3

What occurred on 23 February 1917?

Answer 3

Thousands of women march on Petrograd to mark International Women’s Day, demanding equality and access to more bread. 100,000 more workers join them to demand bread.

Question 4

How many workers were on the streets of Petrograd on 25 February 1917?

Answer 4

300 000 workers

Question 5

What did the Tsar order to General Khabalov on 25 February 1917?

Answer 5

To stop the “disorders” in the capital

Question 6

How did crowds respond to Khabolov’s banning of public gatherings in the capital?

Answer 6

26 February 1917: They gather. Several are shot upon by the crowd.

Question 7

What occured on 27 February 1917?

Answer 7

Petrograd garrison mutinies; only troops capable of enforcing the tsars authority.

Question 8

Why did the Petrograd garrison mutiny? How many men were in the garrison?

Answer 8

Lived in cramped conditions, comprised of mostly peasants and workers and identified with victims of shootings.

Question 9

What did the Duma do after the Petrograd garrison mutinied? When did this occur?

Answer 9

Formed a group of 12 known as the Provisional Committee to restore order. 27 February.

Question 10

What did the Petrograd Soviet of Soldiers, Sailors and Workers Deputies call the Provisional Committee to do?

Answer 10

Immediate elections

Question 11

Who were the two groups ruling Petrograd by 28 February? Which person was a member of both?

Answer 11

Provisional Committee; mostly middle class members of the duma, reflects ideology of Progressive Bloc.
Petrograd Soviet; representing the lower-class workers, soldiers, and sailors.
Alexander Kerensky

Question 12

What did the Provisional Government do to appease the people?

Answer 12

“Freedom of speech, the press, unions, assembly, and strikes…Abolition of all class, religious, and national restrictions….Immediate preparations for the convocation – on the basis of universal, equal, direct and secret suffrage- of a constituent assembly which will establish the form of government and the constitution of the country…Replacement of the police by a people’s militia with an elected command, subordinate to the organs of local self-government.”

Question 13

When did the Tsar abdicate?

Answer 13

2 March 1917

Question 14

What were reactions to the tsars abdication?

Answer 14

Non Russian capitals see this as a release of their nations.
Peasant accept the revolution.
Old imperial symbols destroyed across Russia.
Allied powers recognise the government.

Question 15

What was Alexander Kerensky’s positional in the Provisional Government.?

Answer 15

Socialist Revolutionary

Question 16

What was wrong with the Provisional government?

Answer 16

• Provisional government could not alleviate the concerns of the average citizen; peasant access to land, conduct of the war and the supply of food and fuel.
• Unwilling to convene elections too quickly as they had simply seized power.