WWI · TURNING POINT ·
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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- WWI in 1917, the year of crisis (chapter 10 of WWI)
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- The Great War, 1871–1923
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