The February and March revolutions Flashcards
What were social conditions like at the end of 1916?
-Increase in inflation
-munititions crisis
-rationing
-Scarce goods.
What percentage did inflation grow?
As high as 200%
What did the inflation lead to?
Strikes in Moscow and Petrograd
By 1914, how many workers on strike compared to 1916?
-10,000 workers by 1914.
-880,000 workers by 1916
What did the economic unrest and the war cause in rural areas?
-young male peasants conscripted
-decrease in the workforce
-peasant prices so low that they wouldn’t sell grain.
Why did inflation keep increasing?
-Because the value of the money that they were given began to drop.
Was the millitary aware of the social unrest?
Yes
What did the Tsar do about social unrest?
-very little
-believed it would work itself out like the 1905 revolution and the subsequent october manifesto.
On what date did the government say that there would be grain rationing and what did this lead to?
-March 1st 1917
-panic buying and more strikes
What happened on the 23rd February?
-Women take to the street to protest international womens day.
-Pulitov steel workers strike
-particularily mild day.
How many people were protesting on the streets of Petrograd on the 25th February?
200,000
When did the protests get worse?
-Millitary joined them and began to hand out rifles to the protesters.
-No tool of supression.
Where and where did representatives meet Tsar Nicholas and tell him to resign?
-Representatives from the Duma on a train
-resigned on the 3rd of March.
Who did Tsar Nicholas abdicate the throne for?
-Himself and his son Alexi said he needed to recognise his son was to unwell and he was too old.
How many of the army deserted to join the protestors?
150,000
