Nicholas II leaves for military headquarters

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.

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.

Demonstrators appealed to armed troops not to suppress them. These contacts weakened the government’s ability to rely on military force. The source date is 2/24/1917 Old Style.