Bolsheviks call for the overthrow of the tsar

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.

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 tsar departed for Mogilev at the moment when shortages, strikes and political opposition were converging in the capital. The source date is 2/22/1917 Old Style.

Management closed the Putilov works and excluded striking employees, adding thousands of angry industrial workers to the developing revolutionary movement. The source date is 2/22/1917 Old Style.

On International Women’s Day, women textile workers in Petrograd left their factories and called other workers into the streets for bread and peace. The source date is 2/23/1917 Old Style.

The women-led action expanded into a mass strike demanding food, an end to the war and political change. The source date is 2/23/1917 Old Style.

Nearly half of Petrograd’s industrial workforce stopped work as economic demands developed into calls against autocracy and war. The source date is 2/24/1917 Old Style.