March 8, 1917, The “February” Revolution, Marks the End of the Tsar
Russia, which had been battling decades of problems with an archaic social, economic and political structure with a monarch as its head, was ripe for revolution in early 1917. Starving peasants, an unpopular and a very costly war against the Germans finally was the straw that broke the camel’s back. Tensions had been rising in […]







