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February Revolution (1917)

8-15 Mar 1917 — Bread queues in Petrograd become a general strike; the garrison mutinies rather than fire. In one week the Romanov dynasty, three centuries old, is gone. The Provisional Government chooses to keep fighting — a fatal choice.

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Turning point
Chapter
WWI in 1917, the year of crisis (chapter 10 of WWI)
Atlas
The Great War, 1871–1923
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Map showing February Revolution (1917), turning point in The Great War, 1871–1923
TURNING POINT · THE GREAT WAR, 1871–1923

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