February

The February Revolution (which occurred in March on the Gregorian calendar), began on March 8 1917, when female factory workers were told there was no bread, and as they had waited for hours and needed to feed their families, they rioted. The February Revolution was centred in Petrograd (St. Petersburg), and happened on International Women’s Day. It was the event that ended the Tsarist Romanov dynasty. The primary cause was food. Urban areas were particularly close to starvation, Dernsin also discusses, “Caloric intake fell by a quarter, infant mortality doubled, crime rates tripled, and children are sent into the streets as prostitutes.” As “Virtually every worker protested.” [Dersin, 2005, 120]. 90,000 people protested, flocking to the Imperial Duma with their demands. There were no demonstrations anywhere else in the city. Secondary causes included the fact that…

Imbolic is in Feburary 1-2 ,Imbolc has traditionally been celebrated on 1 February. However, because the day was deemed to begin and end at sunset, the celebrations would start on what is now 31 January. This holiday is also known as Candlemas, or Brigid's Day or Groundhog's Day. this is also another one of the fire festivals. this is time when the Goddess changes from crone to madien. This is also the time when we know that spring is here. On Imbolic it is customary to light up every house if…

George Katkov (November 17, 1903 – January 20, 1985) was a philosopher and historian, but the events of World War II caused him to abandon his plan to pursue a career of being a teacher in philosophy, but later become a lecturer in Soviet Institutions at Oxford University. Published in 1967, Katkov’s work titled Russia 1917: The February Revolution asserts that the Russian monarchy failed, not because of the common perspective of the Tsar being incompetent or the Russian civilian’s discontent of…

Russia became the Soviet Union, which, in case you haven't already figured out, is not ruled by a czar. February Revolution The February Revolution started on March 8, or February 23 using the Julian calendar, which Russia did. On March 8, demonstrators stopped working in Petrograd (st. Petersburg) and demanded bread. By march 10, almost every worker in Petrograd stopped working. Factories started electing councils. On march 11, the Petrograd army garrison was sent in to restore order,…

From the beginning in 1917 most Russian citizens had lost faith and national pride in the leadership ability of Czar Nicholas the second. The government corruption and unjustness was rampant. The Russian economy remained unstable and backwards due to Nicholas repeatedly dissolving the Duma. The first phase of the Russian revolution of 1917 was Russia's mistake of being involved in the first world war. Imperial Russia was no match for industrialized Germany. Russian casualties were larger than…

but the tsar was blinded by his family concerns. Podbolotov describes that by 1917, the irritation of the Tsar was at new heights. A group called the “progressive Nationalists” had entered the Progressive Bloc leading up to 1917, joining the opposition. The tsar’s “faithful people” began to rise up in opposition for the good of society, and this as well became more universal among monarchists. Though there were some that still remained loyal to the regime, the vast majority sympathized with the…

Umme Rahman December 11, 2014 Global History Essay Section 9E Citizens who appreciate and agree upon their ruler have no reason to act upon or rebel against the ruler, which explains why Russian civilians rebelled against Tsar Nicholas Iain 1915, Tsar Nicholas II too complete control of Russia. He was not the ruler the people hoped he would be. By 1917, most Russian civilians lost hope in him, which led to the February Revolution which happened after World War I. The Russian…

In 1917, Russia pulled out of World War I due to an uprising in the motherland. The events that followed were termed the Russian Revolution. It led to the end of a 300-year-old imperial government and the creation of the first communist nation. Despite the fact that the Russian Revolution is called a single event, it was in fact first, a revolution, then, a coup. The first revolution was really a street riot over food scarcity gone out of control. Pressure from the people and Duma, the…

The State Duma The State Duma was a branch of Russian government that was founded to head peace negotiations as a consultative branch and was unsuccessful due to its aristocratic ties to the early fifteenth century. The original State Duma was demolished in the seventeen hundreds and was revived in 1906 after the crisis of 1905. It was a corrupt branch of government that was relatively ineffective on account of Tsar Nicholas II and his ability to veto any legislation passed up by the Duma…

Exhibiting Ayn Rand’s voice the influential piece The Fountainhead, expresses the views Rand wanted shared. Ayn Rand, born in Russia in 1905, lived a normal childhood until Bolshevik soldiers took over her father’s store during the Russian Civil War forcing her family into poverty. The sudden change in lifestyle led to Rand developing strong feelings about the government’s involvement in people’s livelihoods. Rand continued to create new political, social and religious beliefs that led to her…