The Russian Revolution’s example galvanized Turin workers to insurrectionary action.

Evidence

Hostility to the war had been general in the city from the start, and had grown in intensity as the conflict continued. The first months of 1917 were punctuated by numerous industrial struggles launched to counter the effects of food shortages and rising prices; in the vanguard were the women workers, above all in the textile factories. As soon as the news of the February Revolution began to filter through, the idea of “doing the same as in Russia” spread like wildfire. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 76

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the foundation-building theme of how revolutionary models travel and get re-enacted locally — relevant for reading later work on how Islamophobic movements borrow and translate concepts across contexts.