Which city was the main site of the February Revolution?

Correct answer: Petrograd

The correct answer is A, Petrograd. The February Revolution began in Petrograd, the Russian capital then known as St Petersburg and later renamed Leningrad during the Soviet period. Demonstrations by women workers demanding bread expanded into strikes, and soldiers eventually refused to suppress the crowds. Because the capital contained major factories, government institutions and military units, events there rapidly challenged the Tsarist regime. Moscow was also important in Russia but was not the main starting point of this revolution. Berlin and Paris were capitals of Germany and France, so they are geographically and historically unrelated to the main site of the 1917 Russian uprising.