The Bread That Brought Down the Tsar: February 1917

In February 1917, a bread shortage in Petrograd sparked protests that toppled three hundred years of Romanov rule. This episode goes inside the February Revolution—the women workers who marched on International Women's Day, the soldiers who refused to fire, and the politicians who scrambled to fill the power vacuum. We trace the collapse from the Putilov strikes to the mutiny of the Volhynian Regiment, the formation of the Petrograd Soviet, and the abdication of Nicholas II. Along the way, we meet key figures like Mikhail Rodzianko, General Khabalov, and the Tsarina Alexandra, whose wartime decisions fueled the unrest. The episode explores why Cossacks hesitated, how the Duma defied the Tsar, and why the revolution happened so fast. No ads, just history.

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