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Vladimir Lenin

February Revolution

Thursday Mar 8, 1917
Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire

In February 1917, the February Revolution broke out in St. Petersburg – renamed Petrograd at the beginning of the First World War – as industrial workers went on strike over food shortages and deteriorating factory conditions.


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