The Russian Workers Strike - The End of Autoacy

On fourth the central committee of the union of railroad employees and workers announced that they were going on strike. They would remain on strike until the czar called a real constituent assembly to actually reform the russian empire. By october tenth, the strike had fully consumed moscow and rail service in the ancient capital shut down. A meeting at the university of saint petersburg, which was attended by as many as 30 thousand people, got all fired up and were ready to embrace those magic words: general strike.