February Revolution

• 22nd February 1917

  • Putilov arms factory workers in Petrograd go on strike over:
  • Wages,
  • Food shortages,
  • Fuel shortages
  • Terrible working conditions
  • Ineffective working conditions
• 23rd February 1917

  • Women protest about bread shortages
  • Leads to demonstrators being killed
  • Roughly 40 people are killed
• 27th February 1917

  • Soldiers in the Volinsky regiment shoot their own officers, and joined the riots
  • These soldiers were peasants who were enlisted
  • Other regiments followed suit
  • Duma sets up Provisional Government
• Abdication of the Tsar

  • 2nd March 1917
  • Forced to abdicate by members of the Duma, and soldiers