Moscow workers commemorate Bloody Sunday

Russian troops defended positions near Riga while the wider army suffered low morale, shortages and growing disbelief in the war's aims. The source date is 1/1/1917 Old Style.

By the beginning of 1917, mass desertion, hunger among soldiers’ families and war exhaustion revealed the breakdown of imperial military authority. The source date is 1/1/1917 Old Style.

Approximately 145,000 Petrograd workers stopped work. The action showed that organized working-class opposition had revived before the February Revolution. The source date is 1/9/1917 Old Style.

The imperial secret police arrested members of the Workers’ Group after it appealed for political change and a new government. The source date is 1/26/1917 Old Style.

Flour reserves were reported sufficient for only about ten days, meat had disappeared and long queues formed in extreme cold. The source date is 1/31/1917 Old Style.

Women waiting in food queues increasingly entered shops in search of provisions, making the food crisis a visible source of popular anger. The source date is 1/31/1917 Old Style.

Duma chairman Mikhail Rodzianko told the tsar that serious political concessions were needed to prevent national upheaval. Nicholas II rejected the warning. The source date is 2/10/1917 Old Style.