February Revolution

14th February
1. Rodzianko (Duma pres) warns N2 doom
18th
1. Putilov Steelworks STRIKE. 5 days-workers join
  1. born in the bread queue
23rd
1. Intl Womens Day: women join protestors on streets.
  1. Demand equality, end of war and food
25th
1. City strike. Police sympathy for workers
26th
1. General Khabalov's plea for martial law could not be printed: breakdown ordinary life
  1. Garrison want to end war: only the old and the injured
27th
1. Prov Comm formed
  1. 12 duma members refused dissolve
2. Petrograd Soviet meets Tauride Palace
  1. Spoke for workers/troops
    1. De facto gov: "dual authority" Lenin.
    2. Plekhanov, not enough proletarian yeast in the peasant dough to make a socialist cake
3. 8,000 prisoners freed
28th
1. Soviet publishes Izvestiya (the Times) delcaring to "wipe out the old system completely"+ Const ass
  1. N2 return to Petrograd: interecepted, directed to Pskov.
    1. Stavka generals and duma reps advised him not to return: abdicate, hedid.
2nd March
1. TSAR ABDICATES
2. Grand Duke Michael, brother turned dow
3. Prov Comm becomes Prov Gov
3rd March
1. New gov informs world of revolution

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