IGCSE History Russia- Complete Outline
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The Russian Revolution
CAUSES OF THE MARCH [FEBRUARY] REVOLUTION OF 1917 [Why Was There A Revolution In February]?
Weakness of Russia (7 things)
- Size
- Peasants
- Poverty
- Corrupt autocracy
- Okhrana
- Censorship
- = lack of support.
War (4 things)
Tsar and Tsarina unpopular (6 things)
- hated after Bloody Sunday 1905
- Tsar blamed for WWI defeats
- Tsarina left in charge while Tsar commanded army
- Tsarina gave great power to Rasputin
- incompetent government
- = Nicholas and Alexandra hated.
Attacks and opposition (3 points)
Reforms failed (3 things)
Industrialisation (3 things)
- created huge urban workforce
- terrible conditions
- = disaffection in Petrograd.
Famine (5 things)
- Trains diverted to war effort so fewer supplies to cities
- 15 million men joined army
- high prices
- bad winter 1916-17
- = demonstrations and bread riots.
EVENTS OF THE MARCH [FEBRUARY] REVOLUTION OF 1917
7 March
- Steelworkers on strike.
8 March
- International Women’s Day – bread riots.
10 March (2 things)
- Half workforce on strike
- Tsarina orders army to stop them.
11 March (2 things)
- Troops fired on crowds
- Tsar dissolves Duma.
12 March (3 things)
- Soldiers joined riots
- Duma sets up 12-man ‘ Provisional Government’ led by Kerensky.
- Soldiers and workers set up ‘Petrograd Soviet’.
15 March
- Tsar abdicated.
THE PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT [Government That’s Provisional Will Be Killed]
Government (2 things)
Terrible conditions (2 things)
- Continuing war led to worse inflation and food shortages
- = people feel let down.
Peasants (3 things)
- Took nobles land
- Provisional Government sent in troops
- = anger.
War (3 things)
- Russian defeat in Austria
- deserters executed
- = naval mutiny, desertions increased.
Bolsheviks (5 things)
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