February Revolution 1917 (section 2)

Question 1

What was frustrating middle class liberals?

Answer 1

Lack of political rights

Question 2

What was frustrating the peasantry?

Answer 2

Land, hunger and conscription

Question 3

What was frustrating the working class?

Answer 3

Appalling living conditions

Question 4

How did Russia hope to win the war?

Answer 4

By sheer manpower

Question 5

Where did Russia experience heavy defeats?

Answer 5

Battles of tannenburg and masurian lakes

Question 6

Who was day-to-day control left to?

Answer 6

Rasputin and the tsarina

Question 7

Who lead the feb revolution?

Answer 7

Members of Russian upper classes

Question 8

Who did the tsar refuse to work with

Answer 8

Union of zemstvas and municipal councils

Question 9

Why were the progressive bloc formed?

Answer 9

To prevent revolution so the tsar could focus on the war

Question 10

What did tsars rejection of this mean?

Answer 10

That he rejected his last chance to make concessions

Question 11

How much had inflation increased by 1917?

Answer 11

By 200%

Question 12

Why did strikes begin in the end of 1916

Answer 12

The rise in living standards resulted in labour unrest

Question 13

How many people protested to commemorate Bloody Sunday?

Answer 13

140,000

Question 14

Who was ordered to restore order?

Answer 14

General Khablov

Question 15

Why could martial law not be proclaimed or printed?

Answer 15

Due to breakdown of ordinary life

Question 16

Who formed the provisional committee?

Answer 16

Group of 12 old Duma members

Question 17

Who called for the tsar to stand down?

Answer 17

Kerensky and an SR

Question 18

Who formed the Petrograd soviet?

Answer 18

Soldiers sailors and worker deputies

Question 19

What did the Petrograd soviet and provisional committee form into?

Answer 19

De Facto government

Question 20

What happened on tsars return to Petrograd?

Answer 20

His train was intercepted and diverted as a result of troop mutinies

Question 21

Who advised the tsar to abdicate

Answer 21

The stavska

Question 22

Who did the star try to pass his leadership to?

Answer 22

His brother

Question 23

What did the provisional committee rename itself?

Answer 23

Provisional government (PG)

Question 24

Who claimed the the nation were unwilling to fight for the regime?

Answer 24

Trotsky

Question 25

What did Lenin believe to be an essential precondition for a true revolution?

Answer 25

The ruling classes unwillingness to survive

Question 26

What was a military success under Brusilov?

Answer 26

The offensive that killed or wounded half a million Austrian troops

Question 27

What was the feel of the army by 1916?

Answer 27

Pessimism and defeatism

Question 28

Why did peasants begin to desert?

Answer 28

I’ll-equipped and underfed

Question 29

What did research show about Russian armies in 1917

Answer 29

That they were NOT on the verge of collapse

Question 30

What had the strains of war producers in all armies?

Answer 30

Mutinies

Question 31

Why was the Duma recalled?

Answer 31

Due to the poor military showing

Question 32

What did the success of the zemgor show?

Answer 32

That there was a possible alternative to tsarism

Question 33

Who formed the progressive bloc?

Answer 33

Around 230 Duma members of octobrists kadets and progressists

Question 34

What did the bloc try to do?

Answer 34

Persuade Nicholas into making concessions

Question 35

What did the tsar fail to realise?

Answer 35

That the progressive bloc were trying to help him

Question 36

How many different ministers were there between 1915-16

Answer 36

16

Question 37

Who was Rasputin?

Answer 37

A self proclaimed holy man from Russian streppes who was notorious for sexual depravity

Question 38

What did wives of courtiers claim about Rasputin?

Answer 38

That they had slept with him

Question 39

What did this cause those in court to feel about him?

Answer 39

They came to deeply despise him

Question 40

What did Rasputin enjoy?

Answer 40

Royal favour

Question 41

Why was Rasputin invited to court?

Answer 41

Due to the tsarinas belief that he had the ability to heal her son

Question 42

What made the tsarina unpopular at the outbreak of war?

Answer 42

Her German nationality

Question 43

Why did people find it difficult to defend the system?

Answer 43

Because Nicholas allowed the nation to fall under the influence of a monk and a German woman

Question 44

How did the tsarina attempt to make Russia her adapted country?

Answer 44

By converting to the Orthodox Church and adopting Russian customs and conventions

Question 45

Why did aristocratic conspirators murder Rasputin?

Answer 45

Due to spite and restoring the monarchy

Question 46

How did Rasputin demonstrate the administrative skills Russia needed?

Answer 46

By reorganising the armies medical supply

Question 47

How did the government choose chaos and disorganisation?

Answer 47

They insisted that organising the country would organise the revolution

Question 48

What made the February revolution different?

Answer 48

The range of opposition and the speed of protest-revolution

Question 49

Who started a strike on February 18th?

Answer 49

Putilov steel workers

Question 50

Who were they joined by?

Answer 50

Other workers

Question 51

What rumour caused these workers to join the strike?

Answer 51

A rumour of a reduction in bread supply

Question 52

Why were attempts to disperse the protests unsuccessful?

Answer 52

The police had a growing sympathy for workers

Question 53

What happened on national women’s day?

Answer 53

Women joined the protest in demand of food and the end of war

Question 54

Why did khabalov argue that the situation was uncontrollable?

Answer 54

Because the militia and police were either fighting each other it joining the demonstrations

Question 55

What did the soviet declare?

Answer 55

That it would wipe out the whole system and create a constituent assembly

Question 56

How did the remaining ministers abandon their responsibilities?

Answer 56

By using the present of an electricity failure

Question 57

How did rodzianko think the Russian monarchy could be saved?

Answer 57

If the tsar abdicated

Question 58

What did Nicholas believe his personal presence would do?

Answer 58

Calm the capital

Question 59

When was the tsars abdication?

Answer 59

2nd March but officially announced on the 4th