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Food shortages, rationing and wild inflation were rife in Russian cities, and Bolshevik agitators promising 鈥減eace, bread and land鈥� captured the public attention. In February 1917, strikes in Petrograd led to a demonstration and Cossack soldiers refused the Tsar's orders to fire on demonstrators. Nicholas鈥� loss of support and weakening leadership led to his abdication.