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International Women's Day protests in Petrograd ignite mass demonstrations

On March 8, 1917, International Women's Day protests by Petrograd women over food shortages and war conditions escalated into mass strikes and large-scale demonstrations.

Those protests triggered broader unrest that set in motion the Russian February Revolution, leading to the collapse of the monarchy and changes in Allied diplomacy that affected Wilson's foreign-policy decisions.

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