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2 days ago · European theatre of the Russian Civil War. In the October Revolution, the Bolshevik Party directed the Red Guard (armed groups of workers and Imperial army deserters) to seize control of Petrograd and immediately began the armed takeover of cities and villages throughout the former Russian Empire.
1 day 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.
2 days ago · Date accessed: 19 May, 2024. For almost half a century, the classic description and analysis of Communist treatment of the nationalities question over the early years of the Bolshevik regime has been Richard Pipes magisterial The Formation of the Soviet Union: Communism and Nationalism, 1917- 1923, published by Harvard University Press in 1954.
2 days ago · Following the 1917 Revolution, four socialist republics were established on the territory of the former empire: the Russian and Transcaucasian Soviet Federated Socialist Republics and the Ukrainian and Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republics.
6 days ago · The October Revolution, or Bolshevik Revolution, was a takeover of the Russian government in 1917 by a group of radical socialists led by Vladimir Lenin, and was the second part of the Russian Revolution. This video examines all the groups and elements working against the Bolsheviks, and how they overcame them.
3 days ago · A helpful revision guide on the Bolsheviks in 1917 Russia, covering the end of the provisional government and the October revolution, for GCSE history.
4 days ago · 1917: Russian Revolution. While Stalin was in exile, Russia entered the First World War, and in October 1916 Stalin and other exiled Bolsheviks were conscripted into the Russian Army, leaving for Monastyrskoe.
