workingclasshistory:On this day, 1 October 1915, 30 women workers in Bogorodsk, Russia went to marke
workingclasshistory:On this day, 1 October 1915, 30 women workers in Bogorodsk, Russia went to market to buy sugar. Upon discovering it had sold out they grew angry and accused merchants of engaging in speculation. Their numbers grew to several thousand, when they overwhelmed police and began raiding grocery and clothing stores, until Cossack forces shot several people on 4 October. This is a great history of food riots in Russia before the Revolution: https://libcom.org/history/subsistence-riots-russia-during-world-war-i-barbara-engel https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1223658884485926/?type=3 -- source link
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