| Book Description | On February 23, 1917, thousands of textile workers and housewives took to the streets of Russia to protest the bread shortage. The next day, more than 200,000 workers went on strike, and demonstrators went out in marches, throwing stones at the police. On February 26, soldiers received orders to shoot crowds of demonstrators, and the next morning several military units rebelled. By March 1, 170,000 soldiers had gathered, attacking prisons and police stations, and destroying symbols of tsarist slavery that had only lasted 12 days in the face of the revolution.
In this book, Steve Smith seeks to explain how and why the revolution broke out in 1917. How the Bolsheviks came to power and established a regime, and finally, how that regime evolved into a fearsome form of totalitarianism. |
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