Causes of the abdication of the Tsar

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When did the Tsar abdicate his throne?
February 1917
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What did Georgi Gapon form in 1903?
Assembly of Russian Workers
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How many members were in Gapon's organisation within a year? (1903-1904)
9,000
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How many workers went on strike in St Petersburg in 1905?
110,000
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What did the Tsar promise in the 1905 October Manifesto?
Freedom of speech and a state Duma approving laws
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What was the name of the law which effectively reversed the October Manifesto?
Fundamental Laws 1906
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What did Japan take in the Russo-Japanese War in 1904-05
Town of Mukden, Port Arthur and Korea
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What was Nicholas' title in the war?
Commander in Chief
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How much change occurred in government during the war?
Between 1915 and 1916, 4 prime ministers and ministers of war
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What was the Progressive Bloc?
236 of 422 Duma deputies that criticise Tsar
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What were desertion rates in the army in WW1?
25%
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How much food did Moscow receive during the war?
a third of pre-war levels
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How was the economy during the war?
Bad- wages doubled but food and fuel quadrupled
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How did war affect food supplies in Petrograd by early 1917?
Citizens received less than a quarter of 1914 levels
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What happened to the port Archangel?
It had undistributed supplies sinking under the weight of new supplies
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At the start of the 20th century, what was the ratio of industrial workers to agricultural workers in Russia?
12m industrial and 93m agricultural
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What was most people's perception of Rasputin
Womanising charlatan
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What was Tsarina Alexandrina's nationality
German
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What was the name of the Bolshevik's newspaper?
Pravda
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What was the Provisional Committee?
12 members of the Duma who refused to dissolve
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