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"in 1905, #Moscow printers demanded to be paid for setting not only letters but also #punctuation marks, which required the same action and the same amount of time as the alphabet. What is known as the #CommaStrike spread popular #boycott throughout the country, leading to the #czar ceding #Russia its first constitution. A #comma can, more or less, get the blood boiling."

Citing https://www.jstor.org/stable/43204460?seq=3

THE STRIKE AND THE REVOLUTION: A Comparative Study of the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917 and 1953 and 1956 Revolts in Eastern Germany, Russia, Poland and Hungary on JSTOR

Feliks Gross, THE STRIKE AND THE REVOLUTION: A Comparative Study of the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917 and 1953 and 1956 Revolts in Eastern Germany, Russia, Poland and Hungary, Il Politico, Vol. 22, No. 2 (SETTEMBRE 1957), pp. 510-518