The various actions of Russian officials made the country even worse. According to subsequent statistics, Russia's material loss reached 2.18 million tons in 1916, many of which were reported to be lost in various accidents.
The biggest loss among them was that three large oil tankers disappeared in the Black Sea full of crude oil. At that time, everyone thought that the Ottoman navy had captured them, but a year later, someone who worked on them saw similar ships in Romania.
However, it is unknown whether this is the case specifically.
Romania was aggressively making deals with officials, which made the people who were increasingly dissatisfied because of the high prices of living materials finally unwilling to endure it. On January 24, 1917, the workers in St. Petersburg could no longer accept this kind of life. 50 families
About 140,000 male and female workers in the factory went on strike and demonstrated, kicking off the revolution. The next day, the number of people participating in the strike and demonstration increased to 200,000.
Mass strikes and demonstrations were also held in Moscow, Kharkiv, Baku and other cities. At that time, the chief of the Petrograd Police Department said in a report to the Minister of Internal Affairs: "The idea of a general strike is gaining new support day by day.
, and is as popular as it was in 1905."
At this time, the panicked people appealed to the Tsar, hoping that the Tsar would allow them to participate in power. As in history, Nicholas II ignored the people's wishes and threatened to dissolve the State Duma and organized strikes.
In order to support the people, the socialists invited workers to hold a peaceful demonstration near the Tafrida Palace, where the national parliament was located, demanding that the parliament establish a government that would give "the people a way to live." This could increase the prestige of the parliament and put pressure on the tsar.
At the same time, some other voices were heard during the strike. Slogans such as "Down with the tsarist monarchy!" "War against war!" and "Long live the Provisional Revolutionary Government!" also appeared in the parade. This was also the Bolshevik Party's response to this parade.
One of the roles of the Bolshevik Party was that most of its senior leaders were abroad at the time (their approach and slogans were too radical and they could not stay in Russia). Therefore, when popular dissatisfaction broke out, the Bolshevik Party had no influence on the revolution.
Very limited.
However, the Bolsheviks regarded it as a major task to change the direction of the army. The Bolsheviks organized workers to go deep into barracks, outposts, and patrols to persuade the soldiers not to shoot at the people. Because of the domestic chaos and poor performance in the war, the soldiers gradually became less loyal to the Tsar.
, began to sympathize with the people.
This also allowed the Bolshevik Party to develop smoothly in the army. The number of people joining the revolution in the army gradually increased from less than 500 on the 24th to more than 60,000. There are also more soldiers who maintain a neutral attitude because they sympathize with the people.
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Seeing a large number of popular riots against him in St. Petersburg, Nicholas II's first reaction was to suppress them as he did in 1905.
Because on January 22, 1905 (January 9 in the Julian calendar), the Orthodox cleric Father Guépon led a workers' organization of about 30,000 people to a peaceful demonstration in the square outside the Winter Palace with the purpose of submitting a petition to the Tsar.
, to express the hardship and oppression suffered by the working class and the people at the bottom of society, requesting the tsar to carry out social reforms and end the Russo-Japanese War, and hoping that there would be no overtime work and reasonable treatment.
However, when they encountered the armed soldiers who were responsible for guarding the palace, they formed a formation to confront the demonstrators, and the crowd gradually increased to 200,000 people. The soldiers later fired warning shots in the air, and soon after, they shot at the crowd, and the people were panicking.
While fleeing, they scrambled to push each other, and Father Gaipan was also killed in the chaos. It is estimated that there were about 1,000 casualties. This bloody suppression incident aroused public anger, and the Russian people no longer looked to the Tsar.
In fact, after the 1905 incident, various political parties in Russia no longer pursued the Tsar's compromise. The fact that the Tsar, now known as the little daddy, is antagonizing the people is also a mockery of the Romanov dynasty that has ruled for more than 300 years.
At that time, Tsar Nicholas II was in Tsarskoye Selo. After receiving a report from the Petrograd Military District Commander Khabalov about the situation in the capital, he ordered a crackdown on the Petrograd strike movement. However, because of the soldiers' sympathy for the people, they refused to carry out this action.
This order made Nicholas II's situation even worse.
"These traitors, they are betraying the government. When we were fighting Germany and Austria, they were inciting the people behind our backs to sabotage the war."
Nicholas II rebuked the revolutionary groups with a red face in Tsarskoye Selo. The army stopped listening to his orders overnight, which made him fearful. He never understood what kind of situation was causing the army to stop listening to the commander-in-chief overnight.
Order.
"what should we do?"
Queen Alexandra asked with sadness on her face as she watched her husband angrily reprimand the political group that launched the riot.
Queen Alexandra's reputation in Russia was not good. Not only was she not as good as Catherine, the role model of her predecessors, but after the war broke out, there were also rumors that the Queen was a German spy. Although this rumor was quickly put to rest, she has since
Here we can also see that the Queen's reputation in Russia is not very good.
Not to mention that when Nicholas II went to the front to supervise the battle, the empress introduced the monster monk Rasputin as her spiritual sustenance. Let this unlearned Siberian peasant wreak havoc in the palace to disrupt the operation of the Russian government. Until one month
The royalist Yusupov and others killed this evil monk just before. Unfortunately, the royalist action was too late. Because the people could not survive, their dissatisfaction with the government and the tsar reached a new height.
"Now we need to delay, there are troops loyal to me on the front line."
After hearing his wife's cry, Nicholas II thought about sending troops to suppress it after repeated thinking. This was really a fool's errand. In fact, this was not because Nicholas II was stupid, but because of the contamination on his hands.
The blood of too many revolutionaries, whether it came from his orders or not. Many revolutionaries regarded him as the biggest reactionary leader in Russia, so Nicholas II was afraid that his life would be difficult if his rights were taken away.
ensure.
However, those who participated in the revolution had already anticipated the tsar's actions. Octobrist Ya.i. Guchkov and State Duma deputy V. V. Schurgen, on behalf of the revolutionary groups, went to Tsarskoe Selo and Nikol
Tsar II showed his hand. Moreover, these revolutionary groups also called on a large number of troops to defect and prevent troops loyal to the Tsar from entering St. Petersburg.
After seeing that he had no way to change all this, Nicholas II abdicated to his younger brother Mikhail on January 31. The next day, Mikhail also announced his abdication. In this way, he ruled Russia for as long as
The Romanov dynasty was overthrown by the revolution in 304. The Russian Democratic Revolution won victory.
From January 24th to 31st, the Romanov dynasty collapsed in just 8 days, catching the Allies and Central Powers still fighting on the battlefield unprepared. However, there are two provisional governments in this revolution, which will also set the stage for
There are certain variables in the future situation in Russia.
