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  1. Why does the October . Revolution have a November date? In 1917, Russia used the Julian calendar, which placed the date for the October Revolution on October 25. (For the same reason, the March uprising that led to the abdication of the czar is known as the “February Revolution.”)

  2. Nov 6, 2017 · The October Revolution of 1917 had a great impact on Russian, European and world history throughout the 20th century. It led to the establishment of a Communist system, which for decades was seen by many Europeans as an alternative to fascism, but also to parliamentary democracy and the liberal market economy.

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  4. The October Revolution, commonly referred to as Red October, the October Uprising, or the Bolshevik Revolution, was a seizure of state power instrumental in the larger Russian Revolution of 1917. It took place with an armed insurrection in Petrograd on October 25, 1917.

  5. Apr 8, 2021 · The Great October Revolution of 1917 was a continuation of the revolutionary tradition that had its genesis in the middle of nineteenth-century Europe. While it was a stand-alone revolution in Russia (meaning that there were no other revolutions outside Russia at the time), there were strong epistemological and ontological continuities from the ...

    • Ajay Patnaik
    • 2021
  6. Nov 7, 2017 · In October 1917 the war had been raging over three years and all the warring nations across Europe were degraded, in every way: materially, politically, emotionally. The war that had been billed as being over by Christmas 1914 had brought mass death and destruction, with no end in sight.

  7. Feb 16, 2023 · October Revolution. On 23 October 1917, the Petrograd Soviet, led by Trotsky, voted to back a military uprising. On 6 November, the government shut down numerous newspapers and closed the city of Petrograd in an attempt to forestall the revolution; minor armed skirmishes broke out.

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