February Revolution

February Revolution

1. 14th February

   • Rodzianko (Duma pres) warns N2 doom

2. 18th

   • Putilov Steelworks STRIKE. 5 days-workers join
     • born in the bread queue

3. 23rd

   • Intl Womens Day: women join protestors on streets.
     • Demand equality, end of war and food

4. 25th

   • City strike. Police sympathy for workers

5. 26th

   • General Khabalov's plea for martial law could not be printed: breakdown ordinary life
     • Garrison want to end war: only the old and the injured

6. 27th

   • Prov Comm formed
     • 12 duma members refused dissolve
   • Petrograd Soviet meets Tauride Palace
     • Spoke for workers/troops
       • De facto gov: "dual authority" Lenin.
       • Plekhanov, not enough proletarian yeast in the peasant dough to make a socialist cake
   • 8,000 prisoners freed

7. 28th

   • Soviet publishes Izvestiya (the Times) delcaring to "wipe out the old system completely"+ Const ass
     • N2 return to Petrograd: interecepted, directed to Pskov.
       • Stavka generals and duma reps advised him not to return: abdicate, hedid.

8. 2nd March

   • TSAR ABDICATES
   • Grand Duke Michael, brother turned dow
   • Prov Comm becomes Prov Gov

9. 3rd March

   • New gov informs world of revolution