ore suffering countless defeats) and having nearly half the troops unarmed. This meant that about half the army would have to get killed before the others got the chance to hold a rifle in combat. Also, the Tsar was a very bad commander, this meant he had bad strategic plans and the soldiers began to realize that when the death tolls became endless and therefore did not support his plans any longer. The soldiers were ordered to shoot the revolutionaries; the army shot about 40 people before refusing to obey further commands, some regiments even shot their own officers. The soldiers had enough of the War and the way they were treated. Some soldiers just refused to shoot at the crowd and others joined the demonstrators and marched to the Duma demanding they take control. The soldiers blamed all their losses on the commander, the Tsar, and therefore began to hate him. The Tsar lost support of its only protection, the Army; once he lost his protection, there was no barrier to separate him from the revolutionaries. The Army was all that gave power to the Tsar, without it, the Tsar would have no power over the people. The Army was also the only thing that controlled the population because the people would no longer listen to the Tsar or the government, however because of ill treatment the Army refused to control the strikers by force and joined them as they were suffering just as badly as the people. After the Tsar lost his power, control over the population and his protection, he was the forced to abdicate. Once the public found out that there was no one to shoot at them, strikes increased as the people who were afraid of getting shot at joined the strikers. Now the Tsar had no support of the population or the Army and therefore was forced to abdicate on the 15th of March 1917. . ...
