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February 1917 revolution - Coggle Diagram
February 1917 revolution
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causes
WWI
Nicholas made himself Commander in Chief in 1915 - he was poor at this role and just made himself more personally responsible for things that went wrong
inflation - worsened the already poor economic situation and brought economy to breaking point - increased discontent, strikes over unemployment, non-millitary factories closed, food shortages
Nicholas left Alexandra in charge - she was under the influence of Rasputin (supposedly), who people disliked and distrusted, so this raised suspiscion
soldiers experience in the war - lacked necessities eg. food, warm clothing, not enough weapons - many soldiers were sent out without suffiecient weaponary (but the people now did have weapons - able to rebel), large defeats eg. Battle of Tannenburg 1914, 300,000 dead or injured and Battle of Masurian Lakes
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long term discontent
Bloody Sunday 1905 - strike where unarmed deomstrators were fired upon - showed the Tsar's incompetence and lack of compassion towards the people
social discontent - number of strikes workers on strike per year increased from 750,000 in 1912 to 1,450,000 in 1914 - discontent was already growing
economic situation - grain shortages, backwards economy - majority of workers were peasant farmers, industrialisation was slow
urbanisation - population of cities grew but number of industrial jobs didn't - unemployment and poor living and working conditions
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outcome
abdication of the Tsar
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propsed that Alexsei should take over as Tsar with Mikhail, Nicholas's brother, acting as reagent, but Mikhail refused
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attitudes
Lenin is very excited - he did not expect a socialist revolution suring his lifetime and now that one has happened he is eager to exploit it for Bolsheviks to gain control
250,000 people on strike at the height of the revolution - more than half the city's workforce - shows it was a popular revolution
soldiers mutinied - Volynskii regiment - 66,000 soldiers joined the protesters, refusing to shoot on them anymore after being ordered