Joint Crisis Committee: Bolsheviks and Breadlines: The February Revolution, 1917

Over the course of just eight days, long-standing discontent with the monarchy combined with immediate outrage about food rationing to provoke mass anti-tsarist protests across the Russian Empire. Armed protesters clashed with police and gendarmes, culminating in the triumph of the Petrograd workers and the forced abdication of Tsar Nicholas II. At the end of the February Revolution, Russia's political future remained unresolved: the Provisional Government was not made to last, and the Russians had yet to determine the political course of their nation. Wartime economic conditions continued to worsen, and the resulting food shortage had reached its peak.This committee is structured as a joint crisis committee, placing delegates across two factions whose decisions will shape the outcome of Russia's revolutionary moment. 

gRAND CRISIS MANAGER: Parakram Karnik

In this Joint Crisis Committee, delegates will represent the Tsar’s Entourage and the Petrograd Soviet, working to address this shared crisis from their distinct points of view.