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The February Revolution (Russian: Февральская революция), known in Soviet historiography as the February Bourgeois Democratic Revolution [note 1] and sometimes as the March Revolution or February Coup [3] [4] [a] was the first of two revolutions which took place in Russia in 1917.
Manifestation of war veterans and invalids in Petrograd on 17 April 1917 against Lenin's arrival. The April Theses (Russian: апрельские тезисы, transliteration: aprel'skie tezisy) were a series of ten directives issued by the Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin upon his April 1917 return to Petrograd from his exile in Switzerland via Germany and Finland.
The February Revolution was also accompanied by further politicization of the masses. Politicization of working people led to the leftward shift of the political spectrum. Many urban workers originally supported the socialist Menshevik Party (see Menshevik ), while some, though a small minority in February, favored the more radical Bolshevik ...
The French Revolution of 1848 (French: Révolution française de 1848), also known as the February Revolution (Révolution de février), was a period of civil unrest in France, in February 1848, that led to the collapse of the July Monarchy and the foundation of the French Second Republic. It sparked the wave of revolutions of 1848.
Plekhanov was convinced that German imperialism was at fault for the war and he was convinced that German victory in the conflict would be an unmitigated disaster for the European working class. [40] Plekhanov was initially dismayed by the February Revolution of 1917, considering it as an event which disorganized Russia's war effort. [40]
The party's programme of moderate constitutionalism called for the fulfilment of Tsar Nicholas II's October Manifesto granted at the peak of the Russian Revolution of 1905. Founded in late October 1905, from 1906 the party was led by the industrialist Alexander Guchkov who drew support from centrist-liberal gentry, businessmen, and some ...
February Revolution – Train delays delivering bread and flour to Petrograd due to weather and war conditions exasperated existing protests surrounding a strike at the Putilov Plant. Most of the 50,000 protesters for the bread and flour shortages were women who had gathered to celebrate International Women's Day .
It is a celebratory dramatization of the 1917 October Revolution commissioned for the tenth anniversary of the event. Originally released in the Soviet Union as October , the film was re-edited and released internationally as Ten Days That Shook The World , after John Reed 's popular 1919 book on the Revolution.