The Bread Riots That Began the Russian Revolution

International Women's Day, February 23, 1917. In Petrograd, thousands of women textile workers stream into the streets demanding bread. Within days, their protest ignites a general strike, army mutiny, and the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II. This episode follows the February Revolution from its first spark on Vyborg Side to the fall of the Romanov dynasty. We trace the paths of the Putilov strikers, the Volhynian Regiment defectors, and the fragile new Provisional Government under Prince Lvov and Alexander Kerensky. Along the way we touch on the Petrograd Soviet's Order Number One, the double power or dvoyevlastiye that paralyzed reform, and why Lenin was still in Zurich when the Tsar fell. It's a story of ordinary people — bakers, soldiers, factory women — who toppled an empire in eight days.

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