Uprisings and revolutions, too. Resignations and assassinations. All of that.
But when regimes fall — when the uber-powerful lose power — it sometimes happens for the most mundane of reasons. Bread, for example.
In March of 1917, it was the price of bread — and other food basics — that doomed the once-unassailable Czar of Russia, Nicholas II, and ushered in the Soviet Union. That’s mainly what it took: the price of a loaf of bread.
Throughout February and March of 1917, strikes and protests paralyzed Petrograd.
“Bread, peace, freedom!” the peasants chanted, fed up with years of hunger and conflict and repression.
On March 11, the Czar ordered troops to fire on protestors, and dozens were killed — including children. The next day, however, the legendary Volinsky regiment was ordered to do likewise — and instead fired up into the air.
Within days, the Czar and his family would be detained, later to be executed.
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