Petrograd’s food stocks approach exhaustion

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.

Around 30,000 Moscow workers joined a one-day strike commemorating the victims of Bloody Sunday and opposing the autocracy. The source date is 1/9/1917 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.

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.

Bolshevik organizers called workers out in protest against the imprisonment of socialist Duma deputies who had opposed the First World War. The source date is 2/10/1917 Old Style.

Workers from dozens of factories struck while the State Duma opened a new session. Police attempts to disperse demonstrators met resistance. The source date is 2/14/1917 Old Style.

The Bolshevik Petrograd Committee urged workers to move beyond support for the Duma and struggle directly against the autocracy. The source date is 2/14/1917 Old Style.