The strike expands to about 200,000 workers

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.

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.

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.

Militant workers entered police stations and disrupted government communications as the strike movement became an open challenge to imperial rule. The source date is 2/25/1917 Old Style.

The commander of the Petrograd Military District announced that force would be used to end street protests. The source date is 2/25/1917 Old Style.

Authorities detained more than one hundred activists in an attempt to decapitate the movement before another day of demonstrations. The source date is 2/26/1917 Old Style.

Soldiers acting under government orders shot striking workers. The bloodshed accelerated disobedience inside the garrison. The source date is 2/26/1917 Old Style.