☭ THE FEBRUARY REVOLUTION BEGINS

March 8, 1917 — On International Women's Day, the women of Petrograd take to the frozen streets, their cries for bread echoing off the Winter Palace walls. What begins as a protest over food rations ignites into a revolution that will topple a 300-year dynasty.

The Tsar's soldiers, ordered to fire on their own people, hesitate. Many lower their rifles. The crowd swells. By week's end, Nicholas II will abdicate, and the Romanov dynasty will be no more.

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☭ THE FEBRUARY REVOLUTION BEGINS

March 8, 1917 — Petrograd shivers under a bitter winter, but the streets are burning with defiance. On International Women's Day, thousands of textile workers march through the snow, their banners demanding "Bread and Peace." The crowd swells, soldiers mutiny, and within days the Romanov dynasty crumbles. A revolution born not in palaces, but in the frozen streets where hungry women dared to speak.

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Funeral of revolutionaries in St. Petersburg, with a banner demonstrating for Estonian autonomy, Russia, 1917

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Today in Labor History March 8, 1911: The first modern International Women’s Day was celebrated in Austria, Denmark, Switzerland, Germany and the U.S. IWD has its roots in the suffrage movement of New Zealand, and leftist labor organizing in the U.S. and Europe. The earliest Women’s Days were organized by the Socialist Party of America, in New York, in 1909, and by German socialists in 1910. They chose the date of March 8 in honor of the garment workers strikes in New York that occurred on March 8, in 1857 and 1908. However, the first IWD celebrated on March 8, the current date, was in 1911. The holiday was associated primarily with far-left movements until the feminist movement adopted it in the 1960s, when it became a more mainstream celebration.

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Today in Labor History March 8, 1917: International Women's Day protests in Petrograd launched the February Revolution (February 23 in the Julian calendar). The revolution lasted from February 23 to March 3 in the Julian calendar). Over 1,400 people died. Government soldiers sided with the revolutionaries and Czar Nicholas abdicated. However, the new provisional government was so unpopular that it was forced to share power with the communist Petrograd Soviet. The failures of the provisional government led to the Communist October Revolution that created the USSR.

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