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February 1917 Revolution
- Causes
- Russo-Japanese war
- living costs rose to 300%
- workers strikes
- 23rd - Women's day
turned to large protest by
textile workers
- little change from 1905
- 19th - bread rationing
caused riots in Petrograd
- industralisation created new class
- Consequences
- Petrograd soviet
- appealed to people
- controlled military
- provisional government
- unappealing to people
- wanted to stay in war
- made of duma
members
- dual authority
over Russia
- 25th - Cossack troops refused
to fire on demonstrators,
guards refused
- 28th - Tsar asked Duma for
shared power, they
refused
- government dissolved
Duma, who formed
provisional government
- March 1st - workers soviet
joined to form Petrograd
soviet
- Tsar boarded train to
get back Petrograd
- stopped by PG
- asked to
abdicate by PG
- Tsar passed throne to
brother who refused
- ending Romanov
dynasty rule
- Tsar Responsible
- weak, ill-prepared
- refused to cooperate
with Dumas
- poor leadership
- exposed weaknesses in
leaving Tsarina in control of
Russia during WW1
- bloody sunday lost popularity
- industralisation created new class
tensions and wealthier middle class
- repressive regime
- WW1 impact
- Provisional Government
- Summer Offensive
- PG planned to end war, but
soldiers refused
- PG blamed for continuation
of war and starvation
- July Days
- soviet power spread,
peasants ceased land
- Lenin called the
Bolsheviks to take power
- PG put down oppposition
- Lenin and Trotsky fled
- Lenin
- 3rd April: arrives
in Petrograd
- 4th April: april
theses speech
- promised peace,
bread and land
- said PG was far from political freedom
- gained Bolshevik support
- Kornilov Affair
- came into petrograd
to support PG
- PG thought he was
trying to takeover so
arrested him
- reduced PG support
- little control over countryside
- Kadets & Oktoberists
- faced inflation and loans
- increased grain price by 100%
to encourage peasants to sell
their grain