reasons for revolution

Question 1

long term

Answer 1

tsar’s autocracy, political discontent across all levels of society, growing political groups, food shortages, higher cost of living

Question 2

long term (cont)

Answer 2

issues with leadership, loss of confidence in the tsarist regime

Question 3

mid term

Answer 3

tsar’s role in the war, rising unemployment, cancellation of the Duma, Outbursts of anger within military, revolutionary groups growing in size, strikes

Question 4

short term/triggers

Answer 4

bread shortages, international women’s day, Pulitov steelworks strikes, wages cut in half, hunger riots, the role of Rasputin and the Tsarina

Question 5

The July Days

Answer 5

July 1917 - sailors from Kronstadt naval base organized an armed demonstration that spread to the centre of Petrograd, with workers and soldiers joining them
- Rising prices and unemployment contributed to the unrest

Question 6

July days (pt 2)

Answer 6

• when the demonstrations turned violent, the Bolsheviks were blamed,
• The PG brought in troops to crush the demonstrations, and the Mensheviks and the SRs of the Petrograd Soviet supported the PG in this

Question 7

July Days (pt 3)

Answer 7

• Bolshevik newspapers were shut down and Lenin and Stalin fled, while other Bolshevik leaders (such as Trotsky) were arrested