AS FP1 : The Course of the February Revolution Flashcards

(8 cards)

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Conceptual Awareness

What was an indication at the start of 1917 that there was revolution to come?

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By the Winter of 1917 the streets of Petrograd were tense with pent-up frustrations of the unemployed, the starving and the desperate.
A demonstration of 150,000 workers on the anniversary of bloody sunday, January 1917, was a hint of things to come.

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What occured on Monday, the 14th February?

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c10,000 workers from 58 different factories were on strike, news that bread was to be rationed from the 1st March brought round-the-clock queues and outbreaks of violence.

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What occured on Thursday, 23rd February?

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90,000 workers were on strike and 50 factories were closed. Striking workers joined the international woman’s day protest - the city fell into chaos with c240,000 people on the streets of Petrograd.

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How many workers were on strike by Friday 24th February?

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200,000 workers were on strike, they overturned Tsarist statues and called for an end to Tsardom.

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How many people were on strike by the 25th February?

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250,000 people (over half the captial’s workforce) was on strike.

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What occured on the 27th February?

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The Tsar ordered major-general Khabalov, Commander of the Petrograd Military District, to restore order by force. Soldiers were ordered onto the streets and 40 people were killed. However, there was a mutiny of 66,000 soldiers in the Volynski regiment who armed protesters with 40,000 rfiles.

The same evening revolutionaries set up a soviet to take over Government

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Who were the mutineers involved in the February uprising?

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Many of those ordered to shoot the demonstrators were themselves peasants or had a working background. They were young and newly conscripted to fight in WW1. Their sympathies lay with the masses.

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When did Tsar Nicholas II abdicate?

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The Tsar abdicated after his train was halted by striking workers on the 28th February, he then abdicated on the 2nd of March and he and his family were arrested.

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