russian revolution

Bloody Sunday

• 9th January, 1905

• Soldiers panicked and fired on peaceful protest led by Father Gapon

• Killed 200 and injured 800

Stolypin’s Reforms

• 1906

• Established new schools, peasants were allowed to own land and leave the mir, grain production increased

Fundamental State Laws

• April 1906

• Tsar was given ‘Supreme Sovereign Power’, allowing him to dissolve the Duma

October Manifesto

• October 1905

• Creation of the Duma

• Expanded voting rights to more classes of the population, attempted to calm widespread protests

Tsar became commander of army

September 1915

Internation Women’s Day Protests

• 23rd February

• Beginning of the February Revolution

Protests February 1917

• 300,000 protestors by 26th Feb

• Almost all Petrograd factories closed down

• 200 casualties when crowds disobeyed the Khabalov’s orders

Provisional Committee and Petrograd Soviet formed

27th Feb

Tsar’s abdication

2nd March 1917

Provisional Government forms

2nd March

Prince Lvov

Prime minister of Provisional Government

Mikhail Rodzianko

Chairman of the 4th Duma, urged the Tsar to reform and persuaded him to abdicate

Kerensky

Leader of Soviets

Provisional Government Mistakes

• Continuation of WWI

• Failed land reforms

• Inflation and hunger continued

• Decisions often delayed or ineffective

April Theses

Lenin wanted to end WWI, solve food shortages and nationalise all land

Kornilov Affair

September 1917, failed military coup (Kornilov marched his army toward capital to restore order+seize power, government was too weak to stop them and begged Bolsheviks for help and gave them 300,000 rifles.)

Bolshevik takeover

Nov 1917

Bolshevik meeting

October 1917