What did the attack on the police headquarters on 27 February show about relations between state and people?

Open public anger against symbols of state repression

The governing concept is the breakdown of legitimacy between the state and its population. A police headquarters represented the coercive machinery used to enforce Tsarist authority, monitor dissent and suppress demonstrations. Its attack on 27 February therefore showed that popular anger had moved beyond petitions or peaceful complaints and was directed against visible institutions of repression. Option A is correct because it identifies open hostility to the state’s coercive symbols. This did not prove the Tsar’s religious popularity, foreign control of the Duma or military success. Options B, C and D are unrelated to the meaning of an attack on a police institution during a revolution.

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