In March 1917, women textile workers in Petrograd led a citywide strike. In the next 5 days, riots lared yp over shortages of bread and fuel Nearly 200,000 workers swarmed the streets shouting"down with the Autocracy and Down with the war". At first soldiers obeyed orders to shoot the rioters but later sided with them The local protest exploded into a general uprising- the march revolution It forced Czar Nicholas II to abdicate his throne, with a year later revolutionaries executing Nicholas and his family This led to the end of a 3 century czarist rule of Romanovas. The March revolution succeeded in bringing down the czar, yet it failed to set up a strong government to replace his regime The March revolution led to the formation of the provisional government and eventually to the formation of the soviets and Lenin returning to Russia

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