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Red Guard unit of the Vulkan factory in Petrograd, October 1917 Bolshevik (1920) by Boris Kustodiev The New York Times headline from 9 November 1917. The October Revolution, [b] also known as the Great October Socialist Revolution [c] (in Soviet historiography), October coup, [4] [5] Bolshevik coup, [5] or Bolshevik revolution, [6] [7] was the second of two revolutions in Russia in 1917.
The October Revolution, which unfolded on Wednesday 7 November 1917 according to the Gregorian calendar and on Wednesday 25 October according to the Julian calendar in use under tsarist Russia, was organized by the Bolshevik party. Lenin did not have any direct role in the revolution and he was hiding for his personal safety.
Leaflets spread the messages of the revolution, and workers are trained to use weapons for the "last and decisive battle." October 1917 The Bolshevik Committee votes to approve Lenin's proposal to revolt. 24 October Lenin returns to the Smolny after four months in hiding and takes control of the uprising on the eve of the 25th. A message is ...
The Moscow Bolshevik Uprising was the armed uprising of the Bolsheviks in Moscow, from 25 October (7 November) to 2 (15) November 1917 during the October Revolution of Russia. It was in Moscow in October where the most prolonged and bitter fighting unfolded. [1] Some historians consider the fighting in Moscow as the beginning of the Russian ...
[citation needed] Lenin returned to Petrograd in October. On October 23, the Central Committee voted 10–2 in favor of an insurrection; Kamenev and Zinoviev voted in opposition. [13] On the morning of 6 November [O.S. 25 October] 1917 Kerensky's troops raided Stalin's press headquarters and smashed his printing presses. While he worked to ...
The Russian Civil War (Russian: Гражданская война в России, romanized: Grazhdanskaya voyna v Rossii) was a multi-party civil war in the former Russian Empire sparked by the overthrowing of the Russian Provisional Government in the October Revolution, as many factions vied to determine Russia's political future.
[20] [21] [22] The October Revolution of 7 November [O.S. 25 October] 1917 led to the overthrow of Kerensky's provisional government and to the Bolsheviks assuming power. According to William Henry Chamberlin , "A few weeks after the Bolshevik Revolution, on December 23, 1917, an Anglo-French convention had been concluded in Paris, regulating ...
October Revolution parades (16 P) Pages in category "October Revolution" ... Berlin Conference (December 6–7, 1917) C. Central Committee of the Baltic Fleet;