What Were The Events Of The February Revolution?

Question 1

11 February

Answer 1

Crowds marching and vandalising shops screaming anti-war slogans. Fears rising due to rumours of bread rationing.

Question 2

22 February

Answer 2

20,000 workers locked out of putliov steel works for demanding higher wages. Took to the streets with Bolshevik agitators.

Question 3

23 February

Answer 3

International women’s day march. 90,000 on strike. 50 factories closed. 240,000 on the streets in total.

Question 4

25 February

Answer 4

250,000 on the streets in total- half of the capital’s work force. Demanding the end of war and tsarism. Khabilov refused to help the tsar with restoring order and when Shalfeev attempted, he was set upon and killed.

Question 5

26 February

Answer 5

Duma was forced to close down. A provisional government was nominated after rodzianko heard no response from the tsar after suggesting he appoints a new government.

Question 6

27 February

Answer 6

40 demonstrators killed after the army intervened. A muting begins in the volynskii regiment. 66,000 soldiers mutinied armed with 40,000 rifles. A 12 man provisional committee was made. A Soviet was also set up.

Question 7

28 February

Answer 7

Army high command suggests Nicholas abdicates because they can’t support him any longer.