February revolution

• Triggers

  • long term discontent
  • growth of opposition
  • impact of WW1
  • impact if events of winter 1916-17 . -prices rose (pair of boots 5/6 - 20/30), affected food supplies to town, strikes
• timeline pt.1

  • 14th - president of the Duma, Rodzianko, informs Tsar he could no longer rely on his closest supporters
  • 18th - strike at putilov engineering works, where the workers wanted higher wages
  • 23rd - international women’s day, large numbers, around 100,000 strikers and demonstrators
  • 24th - around 200,000 workers on strike
  • 25th - strikes all over the city, 300,000 demonstrators out, no newspapers printed and no public transport
• Timeline pt.2

  • 26th - Tsar instructs army to restore order, but some of Petrograd garrison had deserted, 40 shots fired at demonstrators
  • 27th - buildings, shops, restaurants looted. Most of the Petrograd garrison had deserted. Tsar orders the Duma to dissolve, which it does but 12 members refuse to and set up a provisional committee , where Kerensky demands the `tsar abdicates. The first meeting of the Petrograd soviet and provisional committee, dual control.
• timeline pt.3

  • 28th - soviet issues newspapers, Ivestiya, declares its intention to remove old system of government.
  • 1st March - Petrograd soviet issues soviet order number one
  • 2nd - tars returns to petrograd but is met at Pskov and advised to abdicate, neither his son or brother wan to take the position
  • 3rd - provisional committee renames itself the provisional government
• soviet order number one was where they transferred all authority from officers in the army to the elected representation of the soldiers