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Daily Mail
16 March 1917

GREAT EVENTS IN RUSSIA

Daily Mirror
16 March 1917

CIVIL WAR IN THE STREETS OF PETROGRAD - THE HEAD OF THE NEW GOVERNMENT ASKS THE ARMY AND NAVY TO FIGHT ON

The Globe
16 March 1917

ARMY SIDES WITH THE PEOPLE

News of the World
25 March 1917

EX-TSAR ARRESTED

THE ABDICATION DRAMA

The Globe
16 March 1917

REVOLUTION IN A RUSH

The Globe
16 March 1917

SHORTEST AND MOST BLOODLESS REVOLUTION IN HISTORY

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Daily Mail
17 March 1917

The events leading to the revolution began a week ago with a street demonstration of working men who left work as a protest against the shortage of bread. For the first two days mounted patrols kept the crowds moving without resorting to violence. When ordered to fire on the people, and they refused, police were substituted and a battle occurred between them and the troops. Regiment after regiment joined the revolters and seized the arsenals and other strategic points.

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Daily Mirror
17 March 1917

RUSSIA'S NEW CHARTER OF LIBERTY

1. An immediate general amnesty for all political and religious offences including terrorist acts, military revolts ...

2. Freedom of speech, of the press ... and the freedom to strike ...

3. Immediate preparations for the summoning of a constituent Assembly which, with universal suffrage as a basis, shall establish the Government regime and the Constitution of the country.

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The Times, quoted in The Globe
16 March 1917

To the Tsar, in particular, the highest credit is due.

3.37

The Globe
16 March 1917

... splendid self-sacrifice ...

3.42

The Telegraph, quoted in The Globe
16 March 1917

... our pity and respect ...

3.46

Daily Mail
16 March 1917

The whole country revered him. His simplicity, his generosity of soul, his ardent desire to serve his people and do what he felt to be right endeared him to all. His mistakes arose from a tenderness of heart and a willingness to believe in the honesty of those about him, which are lovable traits in a man ...

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Illustrated London News
24 March 1917

RUSSIA'S FALLEN RULER AND HIS FAMILY

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Illustrated London News
24 March 1917

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The People
1 April 1917

THE CZAR AS A CRAVEN COWARD

4.44

News of the World
18 March 1917

The long and sinister suppression of popular opinion ... was the cause of the Tsar's downfall.

4.50

Morning Post
19 March 1917

The weakness associated with the Emperor Nicholas, his unscrupulous entourage of designing councillors, and the scandals of the Rasputin era - all these combined to destroy respect for his majesty and affection for his family.

5.44

Morning Post
16 March 1917

It is a great triumph for the Allied cause, a great defeat and a great disaster for Germany.

5.54

Punch
March 1917

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Morning Post
17 March 1917

One result of the revolution will be to make the Russian Army more formidable than ever before. German influences, German intrigue, and German gold wove a net about the military forces of Russia so that they have never been able to exert their full strength. That net has now been violently broken and torn to pieces.

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Daily Herald
14 April 1917

The Russian revolution - this is the vital point - ... is a pacifist revolution ... The feverish anxiety with which the British press strives to prove that everyone in Russia is pro-war is clear evidence to me that it is not so ...

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The Nation
24 March 1917

Our press will commit a calamitous error and even set up a thorough and dangerous misunderstanding, if it persists in assigning this great and liberating movement of the body and soul of Russia to a mere difference about the conduct of war, it is a vastly bigger thing than that.

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Daily Herald
24 March 1917

... the beginning of the beginning?

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The Globe
17 March 1917

Revolutions are like avalanches, and it is not always easy to fix the point at which the movement of such stupendous masses will be arrested. The gravest disaster which could befall Russia and the whole cause of human freedom at this moment would be if the control of the nation were to pass from the hands of the moderate Constitutionalists into those of the Extremists ... Happily we have every ground for confidence that the moderate men will hold their own ...

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The Globe
16 March 1917

In light of history the abdication of the Czar will seem a minor incident in the progress of this great drama.