February Revolution 1917

Question 1

22nd January

Answer 1

Anniversary of Bloody Sunday

150,000 workers demonstrated in Petrograd

Question 2

14th February

Answer 2

100,000 from 58 factories strike

Announcement bread to be rationed from March 1st

Question 3

22nd Feb

Answer 3

20,000 workers locked out putilov steelworks when pay talks collapsed

Other workers joined in support

Question 4

23rd Feb

Answer 4

International women’s day demo

90,000 strike - 50 factories closed

Militant students

240,000 on streets - police restored order

Question 5

24th Feb

Answer 5

200,000 workers strike

Overturn tsarist statues, red rosettes, revolutionary slogans shouted

Sang ‘La Marseille’

No obvious organisation - but some radicals distributed emblems and banners with political demands

Question 6

25th Feb

Answer 6

250,000 (over 1/2 PG workforce)

Shops, factories, railways, newspapers closed

Shalfeev dragged from horse and shot

Civilians killed by soldiers but later Cossacks refused to attack when ordered to

Question 7

26th Feb

Answer 7

Rodzianko warned tsar by telegram

Tsar ignored and ordered duma to dissolve

Question 8

27th Feb

Answer 8

Petrograd military district ordered to restore order by force - 40 killed

Mutiny in volynskii regiment

66,000 mutinied, 44,000 rifles
Police HQ attacked and prisons opened

Duma met - set up 12 man provisional committee

Army high command halted troops and told them to support duma

Petrograd soviet set up

Question 9

28th Feb

Answer 9

Tsar sent telegram to Rodzianko offering to share power with duma (told it was too late)

Tsar made way back to Petrograd - train diverted to Pskov (200 miles south)

Question 10

1st March

Answer 10

Petrograd Soviet said it would recognise provisional government

Order No.1

Question 11

2nd March

Answer 11

Tsar abdicated (house arrest)

Grand Duke Mikhail refused offer of throne (hadn’t been consulted terms already agreed)

Provisional Government formed