Workers Protests, Peasant Uprisings, Soldier and Sailor Mutinies Flashcards
When did the crew of Potemkin mutiny?
14 June 1905
When had the Cossacks sided with the People?
25 February 1917; A young girl in a crowd of protestors offers red roses to a Cossack; the officer accepted the gift.
How many people where killed on Znamenskaya Square in February? What was the date? Who was responsible?
26th Feb 17: 50 were shot dead. Soldiers from the Volynsky Regiment.
How did the Volynsky regiment respond to their own murders the next day?
Mutiny; kill their officer once he runs away from them.
Who joined the Volynsky regiment in protest on 27 February 1917?
Preobrazhensky Regiment, Lithuanian Regiment, 6th Engineer Battalion.
When did the Petrgroad Garrison mutiny?
27 February 1917
Who mutinied on 4 July 1917? How many joined protestors against the Provisional Government?
Kronstadt sailors join protestors. 20 000
Who joined protests against the Provisional Government on 4 July 1917?
20 000 workers from Putilov steel works.
When did peasants fully begin to confiscate land?
Early May 1917
What emboldened peasants to rebel?
The appointment of Socialist Revolutionary S.R. Chernov as Minister for Agriculture in May 1917
What did the Provisional Government do that enraged peasants?
Moved to protect the property rights of peasants.
When were Volost committees established in the countryside?
20 March 1917
When was the first All-Russian Peasant Assembly?
4-25 May 1917
