People returning to the streets despite curfew exposed which weakness of Tsarism?

Failure of the regime to stop people despite repression

A curfew is intended to keep people off the streets and make organised protest easier to suppress. If people return to the streets despite that order, the government is unable to enforce its restriction and restore normal authority. In the February Revolution, repeated public action despite repression showed that popular anger was strong and that the Tsarist regime was losing practical control. The failure was therefore political as well as administrative.

Option B is correct because the regime could not stop people even after imposing repression. Option A reverses the meaning: the event did not prove the strength of democratic institutions. The palace’s wealth and foreign trade had no direct connection with the protest. Continued mobilisation under a curfew exposed the weakening of Tsarist authority.

This is a Class 9 History question. Chapter: Socialism in Europe and the Russian Revolution. Topic: The February Revolution in Petrograd.