The February revolution of 1917 began with the bread riots on February 23. This was followed by a general industrial strike on February 25, in Petrograd. The entire Petrograd garrison and the police, joined the revolution by February 27, and by the following day, Petrograd fell into the hands of the revolutionaries.

The February revolution was the spontaneous outbreak of a large number of workers and peasants. By February 27, two organizations came into existence namely the Provisional Committee of the Duma and the Provisional Executive Committee of the Petrograd Soviet of Workers’ Deputies. The latter which represented factory workers, social revolutionaries, Mensheviks and Bolsheviks was to guide the revolution.

The Czarist ministers were arrested on February 28, 1917 and Commissars were appointed in their place by the Provisional Committee of the Duma. The mutiny of the troops occurred on March 1, 1917. Though the Czar Nicholas II was forced to ab

In 1921, Lenin introduced the New Economic Policy (N.E.P) which was a blend of state socialism and state capitalism.

However, an ever-increasing number of workers and soldiers came to recognize the Soviets of Workers’ and Soldiers. Thus a Dual Power was established by the revolution, namely the Provisional Government and the government of the Soviets of Workers’ and Soldiers’ Deputies. The latter was soon established in all cities, towns and districts. The first All -Russian Congress was announced by the end of March, 1917.

In the economic field, the conception of economic planning (Five-Year Plans) and the idea of central direction of the national economy with definite goals, emerged from the Soviet Union. E.H. Carr declared, " If we are all planners now, this is largely the result, conscious or unconscious, of the impact of Soviet practice and Soviet achievement."

According to the Constitution published and adopted on July 10, 1918, Russia was named as the Russian Socialist Federated Soviet Republic. While the Constitution of 1918 guaranteed certain basic rights to the exploited people, it also imposed some basic obligations on them. In 1922, the All-Russian Congress of Soviets created the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic.

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