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  2. 4 days ago · The October Revolution. On the night of October 24-25, 1917 (November 6-7 by the Western calendar), Bolshevik forces, led by Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky, launched an armed insurrection in Petrograd. They seized key government buildings, including the Winter Palace, the headquarters of the Provisional Government.

  3. 1 day ago · A tense summer culminated in the October Revolution, where the Bolsheviks overthrew the provisional government of the new Russian Republic. Bolshevik seizure of power was not universally accepted, and the country descended into civil war.

  4. 1 day ago · After the February Revolution of 1917 ousted the tsar and established a Provisional Government, Lenin returned to Russia, issued his "April Theses", and led the October Revolution, in which the Bolsheviks overthrew the regime.

  5. 5 days ago · In the catastrophic period of civil war and foreign intervention which followed the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, when optimistic expectations were overwhelmed by a desperate struggle simply to survive, there were a number of emergency measures and authoritarian improvisations — which had never been part of the Bolshevik orientation between ...

  6. 1 day ago · Leninism allowed the Bolshevik party to assume command of the October Revolution in 1917. Tsar Nicholas II addressing the two chambers of the Duma at the Winter Palace after the failed 1905 Russian Revolution which exiled Lenin from Imperial Russia to Switzerland

  7. 5 days ago · Aside from the kaleidoscope variety and patent confusion of the opinions of the Bolshevik elite over the national question, ideological commitment was bound to be an early casualty of the immensely complex and infinitely demanding early years of the Soviet state.

  8. 2 days ago · As a result, although it was emerging from the cold war atmosphere which had so dogged it, the study of modern Russian history remained thoroughly tangled in ideological undergrowth which choked its free development. R.Pipes, The Russian Revolution 1899-1919, London, 1990 and The Bolsheviks in Power, London, 1993.

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