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February Revolution

noun

The revolution against the czarist government which led to the abdication of Nicholas II and the creation of a provisional government in March 1917. Synonym: Russian Revolution.

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... Howlett, also, l. c., thinks that piece-wages increase the earnings of workmen, but at the expense of their capacity for constant labor. Count Goertz, in his Reise, 328, relates with what fatal effect piece-work in Demarara tells on white laborers and their horses. After the February Revolution, Parisian workmen demanded the abolition of piece-wages, and obtained it in several manufactories. Revue des deux ...

— Principles Of Political Economy • William Roscher

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Words linked to "February Revolution" : Russian Revolution, Soviet Union, Russia, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, revolution, USSR