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February Revolution

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"The causes of this unrest of the common people towards the Tsar and aristocratic landowners are many and can be summarized as the ongoing cruel treatment of peasants by patricians, poor working conditions of city workers in the fledgling industrial economy and the spreading of democratic ideas from the West by political activists, leading to a growing political and social awareness of the lower classes"

NEW: There were many causes of this unrest of the common people towards the Tsar and aristocratic landowners. The causes can be summarized as the ongoing cruel treatment of peasants by patricians, poor working conditions of industrial workers and the spreading of western democratic ideas by political activists. All of these causes led to a growing political and social awareness in the lower classes of Russia.

The 300 year old Romanov dynasty ended with the Grand Duke's decision on 3 March O.S ( 17 March N.S).

Attempts were made by high ranking military leaders to persuade the Tsar to resign power to the Duma in an effort to collapse war efforts and establish far-left power.

Provisional government + Dual Power

````The term dual power came about as the driving forces in the fall of the monarchy, opposition to the human and widespread political movement, became politically institutionalized. [104].

```the Provisional Government published its manifesto on 2 March, declaring itself the governing body.

```The manifesto proposed a plan of civic and political rights and the installation of a constituent assembly, The Revolution was brought by the masses over the war and land rights but those two points were not addressed in the manifesto at all.

````The Provisional government included 9 duma deputies and 6 Kadets in ministerial positional, representing professional and business interests, the bourgeoisie. As the left moved further left in Russia over the course of 1917, the Kadets became the main conservative party.

```Despite this, the provisional government strove to implement further left leaning policies with the repeal of the death penalty, amnesty for political prisoners and freedom of the press.

In a short amount of time, 3,000 deputies were elected to the Petrograd soviet.

The soviet quickly became the representative responsible for fighting for workers and soldiers hopes for "bread, peach and land".

```The initial soviet executive chair men were; Menshevik Mikola Ckheidze, Matvei skobelev and Aleksandr Kerensky. The chairmen believes that the February Revolution was a "Bourgeois revolution" about bringing capitalist development to Russia instead of socialism.

````The Provisional Government did not have the support of the majority and, in an effort to keep their claim to democratic mandate, welcomed socialist parties to join in order to gain more support.

````The Provisional Government had the formal authority in Russia but the Soviet Executive Committee, since the soviets had the support of the majority of the population, held the real power in effect change.

Dual Power was not prevalent outside of the capital and political systems varied from province to province. One example of a system gathered the educated public, workers and soldiers to facilitate order and food systems, democratic elections and the removal of tsarist officials.

In the spring of 1917, 700 soviets were established across Russia, equalling about a third of the population, representing the proletariat and their interests.

The soviets spent their time pushing for a constituent assembly rather than swaying the public to believe they were a more morally sound means of governing.

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Leading to the February Revolution

Tsar's return and abdication, what units switched allegiance

Provisional government and petrograd soviet share power