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Account for the overthrow of the Tsarist regime in Russia.

  • UPSC 2009
  • Revolution and Counter-Revolution

The collapse of Tsar Nicholas II's three-hundred-year-old Romanov autocracy in February 1917 unfolded with startling speed — a regime that had survived the 1905 Revolution and a world war disintegrated within a matter of days.

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  • Nicholas II's Wartime Mismanagement
  • The Petrograd Bread Riots and Garrison Mutiny
  • The Duma's Provisional Committee and the Petrograd Soviet
  • The Tsar's Abdication
  • Assessing the Collapse

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