The february revolution in 1917

use of the Julian calendar) begins on this day in 1917,when riot and strikes over the scarcity of food erupt in Petrograd (now St Petersburg).
By 1917, most Russian had lost faith in the leadership ability of the czarist regime. Government corruption was rampant, the Russian economy remained backward and Czar Nicholas II has repeatedly dissolved the Dumas, the Russian parliamentary groups established to placate the masses after the Revolution of 1905,each time they opposed hid will.

the more sweeping Russian Revolution of 1917 was Russia’s disastrous involvement in World War II. Militarily, imperial Russia was no match for industrialized Germany.
Russian troops were shockingly ill-equipped for fighting, and Russian casualties were greater than those sustained by any nation in any previous war.
Meanwhile, the Russian economy was hopelessly disrupted by the costly war effort and moderates joined Russian radical element in calling for the overthrow of the Czar.

street of the Russian capital of Petrograd. Supporting by 90,000 men and women on strike, the protesters clashed with police, refusing to leave the streets.
On March 10, the strike spread among Petrograd’s workers and irate mobs of workers destroyed police stations. Several factories elected deputies to the Petrograd Soviet (council) of workers, following the model devised during the Revolution of 1905.

out to quell the uprising . In some encounters, regiments opened fire, killing demonstrators, but the protesters kept to the streets, and the troops began to waver.
That day Nicholas again dissolved the Dumas. When the frustrated Russian army at Petrograd unexpectedly switched their support to the demonstrators, the imperial government was forced to resign and a provisional government was established.
Three days later, Nicholas formally abdicated hid throne, effectively ending nearly four centuries of Czarist rule in Russiab.