1917 Bolshevik take over
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- Created on: 30-04-17 09:52
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- 1917
- February revolution
- Monday 14th -100000 workers from 58 factories striked
- Bread was going to be rationed in March and this caused violent exchange between workers and police
- Wednesday 22nd -20000 Putilov iron workers refused entry to factories after pay talks failed
- Thursday 23rd -90000 workers strike and 50 factories closed this is the same day as women's march
- Friday 24th -200000 workers strike with anti-tsarist banners
- Saturday 25th -250000 on strike Petrograd standstill police chief Shalfeev beaten to death and civilians killed at Nevskii Prospekt
- Sunday 26th Rodzianko,Duma president asks tsar to form new govt Nicholas replies with stop meeting
- Monday 27th tsar uses military force and 40 killed in city centre caused mutinies in Volynskii regiment -66000 munity -12 man pg set up and Petrograd soviet also set up
- Tuesday 28th Nicholas leaves front and offers to share power with Rodzianko but 'the time for them has gone'
- Monday 14th -100000 workers from 58 factories striked
- PG - influential elites and constitutional monarchists -only temporary - aim to make constituent assembly - set up in Duma chamber in Tauride palace
- Dual power - amnesty for political prisoners -civil liberties -abolition of legal disabilities -right to TUs and elected assembly
- Petrograd soviet -Mensheviks and SR and a few Bolsheviks - in left wing of Tauride palace - only 7/42 were workers
- Dual power - amnesty for political prisoners -civil liberties -abolition of legal disabilities -right to TUs and elected assembly
- Lenin returns and does speech on april theses
- Power to transferred to soviets- war to end - all land given to peasants
- Soviets set up everywhere and local committees peasants refused to pay rent workers want higher pay
- July days grain prices doubled caused by poor harvest and shortage of fuels so 586 factories closed and 100000 jobs lost increased demand for Bolshevik rule
- October revolution
- 10th Lenin calls meeting of bolshevik central committee to led a revolution
- 20th the military revolutionarycommittee of the Petrograd soviet meet
- 24-25th armed workers and soldier follow bolsheviks to take over key buildings in Petrograd
- 5000 sailors and soldiers from Konstadt
- Telephone exchange post office railways news agency state bank bridges and power station
- 25-27th PG arrested and Congress's adopts Lenin's decree on peace and appoints soviet govt
- Storming of winter palace with 10000-15000
- Kornilov affair -six regiments marched on Petrograd to crush soviets but Kerensky (new pm) panicked and released Bolshevik prisoners armed them to stop kornilov
- Original control had to establish bankers and civil servants refused to serve under them
- 10 days of fighting between Bolshevik and PG by end Bolshevik dominated major towns
- Bolshevuses propaganda against burzhui and closed anti-Bolshevik newspapers
- Imprisoned opposition parties
- Constituent assembly's elections show SRs to be most popular party so Lenin said the election proved nothing
- February revolution
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