The great February Revolution began with the protests of women textile workers, who went on strike on 8 March (23 February, Old Style) and called on other workers to support them.
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Their demands were, in fact, modest, but they soon led to the downfall of centuries of tsarism. The heroic role played by women in the Russian Revolution was foreseen some five months earlier when Lenin was drawing on the experiences of the Paris Commune:
A certain bourgeois observer of the Paris Commune, writing to an English newspaper in May 1871, said: “If the French nation consisted entirely of women, what a terrible nation it would be!” Women and teenage children fought in the Paris Commune side by side with the men. It will be no different in the coming battles for the overthrow of the bourgeoisie. Proletarian women will not look on passively as poorly armed or unarmed workers are shot down by the well-armed forces of the bourgeoisie. They will take to arms, as they did in 1871, and from the cowed nations of today – or more correctly, from the present-day labour movement, disorganised more by the opportunists than by the governments – there will undoubtedly arise, sooner or later, but with absolute certainty, an international league of the ‘terrible nations’ of the revolutionary proletariat.[ 20]
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