- Russian political and economical system could not deal with the ravages of WW1
- Russia saw a rise in the number of demonstartions after 1914
- One such outbreak happened in Petrograd (St. Petersburg) in Feb 1917
Events unfolded as follows:
Feb 14th - 80,000 demonstrated in support of the Duma
Feb 18th - Putilov strike
Feb 23-25th - demostrations against food shortages
Feb 26th - 40 demonstrators shot by troops
Feb 27th - Volynsky regiment mutinied and refused to shoot demonstrators
- Feb 27th until March 2nd saw a wave of revolutionary disturbances throughout Russia
- Kronstadt naval base munitied, workers seized factories and attacked managers and peasants seized land and illegaly felled trees. National minorities in Russia took their indpendence
- Duma formed commitee to try and persuade Nicholas to set up a constitutional monarch
- Nicholas was travelling back on a train when he was forced to ABDICATED!
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