Fill in the Blanks RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONOnline version Complete the gaps using key vocabulary. by Alfonso Poza 1 Petrograd dynasty Serbs garrison demonstrators abdicated Duma women Kerenski wounded bread Russia entered into World War I in August 1914 in support of the and their French and British allies . Russian involvement in the war was so disastrous that by 1917 Russia had suffered 2 million dead and 5 million . A increased in the price of the and the rationing made things even worse . In the capital city demonstrators led by working - class demanded " peace and bread " and " down with the Tsar " . The troops of the Petrograd army were called out to quell the uprising but they refused to shoot on protesters and even joined the . The formed a provisional government led by Alexander and asked the Tsar resignation . A few days later Tsar Nicholas II ending three centuries of the Romanov .