The 1917 Revolution (oct)
The Kronstadt Mutiny
20,000 armed sailors took control of Petrograd and demanded the soviet take power.
Kornilov affair - The Bolsheviks are seen as defenders of Petrograd
Kornilov threatened to attack the city
Bolsheviks led by Trotsky (military side)
Lenin led the petrograd uprising and it was bloodless
cruiser Aurora fired one blank shot at winter palace
Winter palace defended by Cossacks
Women's battalion of death and cadets.
20,000 armed sailors took control of Petrograd and demanded the soviet take power.
Kornilov affair - The Bolsheviks are seen as defenders of Petrograd
Kornilov threatened to attack the city
Bolsheviks led by Trotsky (military side)
Lenin led the petrograd uprising and it was bloodless
cruiser Aurora fired one blank shot at winter palace
Winter palace defended by Cossacks
Women's battalion of death and cadets.
In the history of modern socialism this is a phenomenon, that the strife of the various trends within the socialist movement has from national become international.
Lenin,
In Apr., 1917, Lenin and other revolutionaries returned to Russia after having been permitted by the German government to cross Germany. The Germans hoped that the Bolsheviks would undermine the Russian war effort. Lenin galvanized the small and theretofore cautious Bolshevik party into action. The courses he advocated were simplified into the powerful slogans "end the war,""all land to the peasants," and "all power to the soviets. The failure of the all-out military offensive in July increased discontent with the provisional government, and disorders and violence in Petrograd led to popular demands for the soviet to seize power. The Bolsheviks assumed direction of this movement, but the soviet still held back. The government then took strong measures against the Bolshevik press and leaders. Nevertheless, the position of the provisional government was precarious.