Describe february revolution and its consequences.
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The winters of 1917, the conditions of the capital, petrograd were awful. The layout of the cities seem to be emphasising on the division among its people as worker quarters and factories on the right Bank of the river Neva while the winter Palace and the official buildings on the left. In February 1917 there was acute shortage of food in Russia which made the life of workers very difficult.
On 22nd February a Lockout took place at a factory on the right bank and the next day 50 factory workers called upon Strike. On the next day that was 23rd women joined the strike which made it to be called as international Women's Day. after 23rd the workers were dispersed at the evening Kama birthday came back on 24th and 25th February. The noble men try to control the situation but were unable to do so. The Duma subsequently was suspended on Sunday 25th February.
After the suspension of the 2 month the politicians of the Duma also join the strike and on 27th the police headquarters attacked and damaged. Workers demonstrated in the street racing slogans about better hours about food about their wages and about to start a democracy in the country. Again to suppress The Revolt the winter palace called upon the forces, but they refused to shoot upon them. Officer was shot at the Barrack of a regiment.
Collectively after all these events the soldiers and the workers jointly form a soviet council in the same building in which the duma met. This council was finally called as the petrograd Soviet.
The next day of the creation of the petrograd Soviet a delegation went to see the tsar and finally after a long conversation tsar abdicated his Throne on 2nd March
This was the end of monarchy in petrograd at February 1917
Answer:
The February Revolution known in Soviet historiography as the February Bourgeois Democratic Revolution[2] and sometimes as the March Revolution,[3] was the first of two revolutions which took place in Russia in 1917.
February Revolution
Part of the Russian Revolution,
Revolutions of 1917–1923
Демонстрация работниц Путиловского завода в первый день Февральской революции 1917.jpg
Putilov Factory workers protesting,
8 March [O.S. 23 February]
Date
8 – 16 March 1917 [O.S. 23 Feb. – 3 Mar.]
Location
Petrograd, Russian Empire
Caused by
Defeats of the Russian Army in World War I.
Discontent of the population with poverty caused by the Tsar's policy, such as long lines of women for bread and coal.
Increased opposition to the Tsarist regime within the liberal and socialist (revolutionary) parties.
Resulted in
Revolutionary victory:
Abdication of Nicholas II
End of the Empire; formation of the Republic
Establishment of dual power between the Provisional Government and the Petrograd Soviet
Parties to the civil conflict
Imperial Government:
Lesser Coat of Arms of Russian Empire.svg Petrograd Police
Lesser Coat of Arms of Russian Empire.svg Gendarmes
Lesser Coat of Arms of Russian Empire.svg Ministry of Internal Affairs
Lesser Coat of Arms of Russian Empire.svg Petrograd Garrison
Protesters:
SRs
RSDLP
Soldiers, factory workers, etc.
Progressive Bloc
Lead figures
Nicholas II
Nikolai Golitsyn
Sergey Khabalov
Mikhail Belyaev
Nikolai Ivanov
Various
Casualties and losses
1,443 killed in Petrograd[1]
The main events of the revolution took place in and near Petrograd (present-day Saint Petersburg), the then-capital of Russia, where long-standing discontent with the monarchy erupted into mass protests against food rationing on 23 February Old Style (8 March New Style).[4] Revolutionary activity lasted about eight days, involving mass demonstrations and violent armed clashes with police and gendarmes, the last loyal forces of the Russian monarchy. On 27 February O.S. (12 March N.S.) mutinous Russian Army forces sided with the revolutionaries. Three days later Tsar Nicholas II abdicated, ending Romanov dynastic rule and the Russian Empire. A Russian Provisional Government under Prince Georgy Lvov replaced the Council of Ministers of Russia.
The revolution appeared to break out without any real leadership or formal planning.[5] Russia had been suffering from a number of economic and social problems, which compounded after the start of World War I in 1914. Disaffected soldiers from the city's garrison joined bread rioters, primarily women in bread lines, and industrial strikers on the streets. As more and more troops deserted, and with loyal troops away at the Front, the city fell into chaos, leading to the overthrow of the Tsar. In all, over 1,300 people were killed during the protests of February 1917.[6]