HISTORY
WORLD WAR I AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
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Women, it was International Women’s Day.
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Soldiers, it was International Sailors Day
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Bolsheviks, it was International Workers Day.
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Cossacks, it was International Horse Day
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Detailed explanation-1: -February Revolution, (March 8–12 [Feb. 24–28, old style], 1917), the first stage of the Russian Revolution of 1917, in which the monarchy was overthrown and replaced by the Provisional Government.
Detailed explanation-2: -Bolshevik Revolution On November 6 and 7, 1917 (or October 24 and 25 on the Julian calendar, which is why the event is often referred to as the October Revolution), leftist revolutionaries led by Bolshevik Party leader Vladimir Lenin launched a nearly bloodless coup d’état against the Duma’s provisional government.
Detailed explanation-3: -Early development in the USSR and other communist nations On March 8, 1917, in Petrograd (February 23, 1917, on the Julian calendar), women textile workers began a demonstration that eventually engulfed the whole city, demanding “Bread and Peace"-an end to World War I, to food shortages, and to czarism.
Detailed explanation-4: -The revolution was begun by women, not male workers. In the afternoon the mood began to change as female textile workers from the Vyborg side of the city came out on strike in protest against shortages of bread.