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Alexander I
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Reutern as finance minister
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People's Will - let's kill him
Hopped off of the approving mood of the Zasulich trial, members of The People's Will agreed the Tsar was an enemy of the people, vowing to assasinate him -
Bloody Sunday
Father Gapon and 150,000 marching peasants singing praises to the Tsar and asking for reform at the Winter Palace. They were fired at by Cossack soldiers, 130 died. This caused outrage against the Tsar who refused responsibility and helped spark the 1905 Revolution -
1.5 million desertions
Poor morale and 50% of farmers are at war, so most are starving back home -
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1917 Revolution
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Petrograd strikes
145,000 workers on strike with 30,000 more in Moscow. Rodzianko (head of the Duma) asks for more power to keep the peace and the Tsar refuses -
Bread rationing announced
To be rationed from the 1st of March, mass demonstrations in Petrograd -
International Women's Day marches
Around 128,000 celebrate the day, led by women and striking Putilov arms workers (over wage disputes) -
200,000 now on strike
Half of Petrograd's entire workforce - the Tsar is confident in his memoirs: 'all this will surely pass' -
Duma closes down
Tsar orders the Duma to close, but they have meetings in secret -
Petrograd army mutiny
80,000 soldiers mutiny against the Tsar's orders to fire at protesters. Half of whom join arms with them -
Kronstadt sailor mutinies
Shooting or imprisoning their officers, they set up their own soviet. The Tsar's train is also stopped on its way to Petrograd -
Order No. 1
Issued by the Petrograd Soviet, effectively controlling the army. Military Commission of the State Duma can dish out orders to the army if they didn't contradict the Soviet of Workers, off-duty no longer had to salute officers and had access to civilian rights, all weapons under the control of a soldier committee -
Provisional Government created
A temporary body in place of the Tsar until the next elections -
Tsar Nicholas' abdication
On behalf of himself and his son, to give the tsardom to his younger brother Mikhail. He refused the position and ended 300 years of Romanov rule. The family was put under house arrest