The revolutions of 1917 : 2.2 Events in Petrograd

Question 1

Major Event NUMBER 1

Answer 1

19th February 1917 : Strike at Putilov engineering Works -they want higher wages because their wages had lost value as a result of inflation.

Question 2

Major EVENT 2

Answer 2

23rd February 1917 : International Women’s Day - socialist groups organise massive rallies and marches, they joined 100000 strikers and demonstrators on the street of Petrograd : simple slogans - “Down with hunger!” & “Bread for the workers!”

Question 3

Major EVENT 3

Answer 3

25th February 1917 : No public transport, no newspapers printed, 300,000 demonstrators on the street and police sympathy

Question 4

Major EVENT 4

Answer 4

26th February 1917 : Nicholas instructs army to restore order but some of the Petrograd Garrison has deserted - some shots are fired at protesters but there are no newspapers to print out the Tsar’s orders.

Question 5

Major EVENT 5

Answer 5

27th February 1917 : Buildings and shops are looted, most of the Petrograd Garrison mutinied and Du a dissolves although 12 members set up a “Provisional Committee” - Kerensky demands Nicholas to abdicate.

Question 6

Major EVENT 6

Answer 6

Petrograd Soviet issues the newspaper “Izvestiya” and declares its intentions to remove the old system of government

Question 7

Summarise the February Revolution (1917)

Answer 7

Abdication if Tsar + emergence of PG out of the Duma

Question 8

Major EVENT 7

Answer 8

1st March 1917 : PS issues Order Number 1 : all military matters have to pass through the PS first before they could be carried out

Question 9

Major EVENT 8

Answer 9

2nd March 1917 : Nicholas abdicates (refuses to let son take over due to haemophilia and his brother (Grand Duke Michael) refuses)

Question 10

Major EVENT 9

Answer 10

3rd March 1917 : The Provisional Committee renames itself the PG and becomes responsible for running the country