Answer:
Events
and Effects of the February Revolution
1. 22nd February, 1917 Lockout of a factory on the right bank. Effect -
the next day, the workers of 50 factories went on strike in sympathy.
2. 24th and 25th February Demonstrators came back on the
streets and were dispersed by imposing curfew.
3. 25th February The government suspended the Duma.
Politicians criticised the measure.
4. 26th February Demonstrators returned in force to the
streets.
5. 27th February Workers ransacked the Police
Headquarters.
6. 2nd March The Tsar abdicated. Soviet leaders and Duma
leaders formed a Provincial Government to run the country. No political party
was actively organising the February Revolution. Men and women workers were involved
in this movement who were supported by the soldiers.
Events and Effects of the October Revolution
1. 16th October, 1917 Lenin persuaded the Petrograd Soviet
and the Bolshevik Party to agree to a socialist seizure of power. It led to the
formation of a Military Revolutionary Committee for seizure of power.
2. 24th October Uprising began. The buildings of two Bolshevik
newspapers were seized by the military men loyal to the government.
3. On the same day pro-government troops were sent to take
over telephone and telegraph offices and protect the Winter Palace.
4. Responding to the Government's action, the Military
Revolutionary Committee seized the government offices and arrested the
ministers.
5. The navy played a significant role in the assault of
the Winter Palace.
6. The revolutionaries took over different military
points.
7. By nightfall, the city was under the committee's
control and the ministers had surrendered.
8. By December, the Bolsheviks controlled the Moscow
Petrograd area.
The Bolsheviks were involved mainly in the October
Revolution. Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotskii were the main leaders of the Revolution.
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