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Turning point · The Russian Revolution, 1905–1924

February in Petrograd

Map showing February in Petrograd — The Russian Revolution, 1905–1924
TURNING POINT · THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION, 1905–1924

Feb/Mar 1917 — Bread queues become strikes; strikes meet a garrison that will not fire. In five days a 300-year dynasty has no soldiers left to defend it. Nobody planned it.

This is one scene of Chapter 2 — The War Breaks the State in The Russian Revolution, 1905–1924.

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