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1917-1918
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More than 140,000 Russian workers strike in commemoration of the 12th anniversary of Bloody Sunday.
Many workers went on strike as they were loosing the war and realised it was The Tsars's Fault. He made very bad decisions which caused the uproar. -
More than 100,000 workers are still on strike; the Duma attacks the government failing to respond to food shortages.
The workers are still on strike. The Duma attacks the government and they fail to respond to food shortages which is why people are still on strike. -
The February Revolution begins. The tsarist government announces food rationing, leading to panic buying in cities, where food availability is already critically low.
The Tsarist government announces that there will be food rations which causes panic in the nation. This is very bad as cities will be critically low on food. -
Strikes continue to expand, with more than 200,000 workers now involved, leading to occasional violent clashes between protesters and police.
Strikes continue to increase in size and time more than 60,000 workers now join in making it 200,000. This lead to many violent clashes between the people and the police/army. -
Over 500,000 people attend the demonstrations in Petrograd
Over 500,000 people attend the demonstrations in Petrograd. The first of the soldiers from the front arrive ready to support the Provisional Government, and frightened that a revolution is imminent, are ordered to launch ambushes against the masses. 400 people are killed and wounded. The Mensheviks, hands covered in blood, eventually the demonstrators to go home. -
Stalin is elected to the Central Committee of the Bolsheviks.
Stalin got elected to the central Committe of the Bolsheviks after managing to sneak into russia from germany.