October Revolution

• October 19th 1917

  • Petrograd Soviet sets up a Military Revolutionary Committee (MRC)
  • This MRC was to plan the revolution
• 25th October 1917

  • Bridges, telegraph offices, Banks, post offices, and railway stations, were all seized by the Bolsheviks
• 25 October 1917 - Taking of the Winter Palace

  • Red Guards moved into the Winter Palace - being defended by a few cadets and women
  • By now, Kerensky had fled Petrograd
• Causes of the October Revolution

  1. Mistakes of the Provisional Government
  2. The autocrat rule of the Tsar, and his poor leadership
  3. Kornilov Affair
  4. Peasant unrest
  5. Lenin's return and leadership
  6. World War I
• Causes of the October Revolution - Lenin's return & leadership

  • Lenin planned, and Trotsky put into action
  • Effective slogans
  • Said what workers wanted to hear