Answer:
On Sunday the 25 February, the government
suspended the Duma. Demonstrations returned back on the streets of the left
bank. People raised slogans about bread, wages, better hours and democracy. The
government tried to control the situation by calling the army but the cavalry
refused to fire at the demonstrators. Now soldiers also joined workers and had
all gathered to form a Council called the 'Soviet'. This was the Petrograd
Soviet. The very next day, a delegation went to see the Tsar and advised him to
accept defeat. He decided to abdicate on 2 March and the Soviet leaders and the
Duma leaders formed a Provisional Government. New Russia's future would be
decided by the Constituent Assembly, elected on the basis of universal adult
franchise. Petrograd had led the February Revolution that brought down the monarchy
in February 1917.
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