the course of the 1917 revolution February

Question 1

what happened in the winter of 1916-17?

Answer 1

• strikes and lock outs
• Tsarina ignored warnings from secret police and condemned strikers as hooligans
• when leading members of duma tried to make her aware of how serious matters were she claimed they were undermining the gov

Question 2

what was announced towards the end of February 1917?

Answer 2

• bread was to be rationed
• some women spent almost 24hours in queues for food
• scuffles over remaining bread stocks turned into riots

Question 3

what happened on Thursday 23rd Feb 1917?

Answer 3

• international women’s day march
• many women many textile workers went on strike and took lead in politicising the march overturning trams and blocking streets

Question 4

what happened on the 23-25th of Feb 1917?

Answer 4

• demonstrations grew more political
• women marched into Vyborg district of Petrograd and persuaded men from the highly politicised Putilov engineering works and other factories to join them
• demanded for an end to war and end to tsar
• huge crowd made its way centre of city crossing frozen river Neva and burst onto Nevsky Prospekt (main street in Petrograd)

Question 5

what happened on the weekend of 25-26 Feb that was a turning point?

Answer 5

• tsar orders troops to take fire on protestors but many soldiers refused to take action against the people as have just been fighting in war so patience is short and role of NCO’s
• one by one regiments moved over to side w the people

Question 6

what happened on Monday 27th Feb 1917?

Answer 6

• duma formed a special committee made up of representatives of the main political parties
• realised things had gone too far for the tsar to be involved in any kind of gov
• Russian army high command had come to same conclusion and put a stop to troop movements on Petrograd
• tsars train stopped outside of capital 8888888888vcfg

Question 7

what happened on Tuesday 28th February 1917 and who did the Tsar receive a telegram from?

Answer 7

• Tsar leaves military HQ at Mogilev for the capital
• on route to Petrograd Nicholas receives telegram from Rodzianko who tells him “the measures you propose are too late. the time for them is gone. there is no return”

Question 8

what happened on March 2nd 1917?

Answer 8

• abdication of the Tsar in favour of his brother Michael but he realised the extent of anti-monarchical feeling so refused and the Romanov dynasty came to a swift end

Question 9

what was the death toll of the Feb revolution?

Answer 9

• 1500 with several thousand wounded