7 décembre 2016
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Andrea Panaccione, « May Day Celebration, Petrograd, Field of Mars, 1917 », Graduate Institute Publications, ID : 10.4000/books.iheid.6611
The back of the document reads (in Russian and French): “1-е Мая 1917 год” – “1er mai 1917” – [“May 1st 1917”]. Black and white photograph; 17 x 23 cm. On 9 May 1917, according to the Julian calendar then in use in Russia, the Petrograd Soviet announced its decision to make the date for the celebration of May Day coincide with that of 1 May in the West. Until then, Russian workers had celebrated the proletarian feast of May Day according to the old style calendar. Only in the western territor...