Bolshevik revolution 1917
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- 1917
- Petrograd Soviet
- dual power
- amnesty to political prisoners
- abolition of legal disabilities based on class, race or gender
- basic civil liberties
- right to organise TU and strike
- constitutional assembly
- mensheviks and social democrats who were supported by the people
- peasant disturbances increased due to them
- dual power
- the Provisional government
- dual power
- amnesty to political prisoners
- abolition of legal disabilities based on class, race or gender
- basic civil liberties
- right to organise TU and strike
- constitutional assembly
- made up of influential elite and political parties who wanted a constitutional monarchy - Kadets
- aimed to form a constituent assembly
- dual power
- Bolsheviks take over
- Lenin returned on the 3 of April and devilered his 'April theses'
- power transfer to the soviets
- 'peace, bread and land'
- war to immediately end
- 'peace, bread and land'
- all land owned by state to be given to the peasants
- power transfer to the soviets
- 'July days'
- 3rd-5th of july
- 20000 armed sailors joined workers on the street in protest to jobs lost and chant Bolsheviks slogan and attacked and raided
- increased their number in the Dumas and had 200000 member in October
- Lenin returned from hiding in Finland (leaked he was working for Germans )
- Attended the Bolshevik central committee and rallied a revolution and on the 20th the military revolutionaries committee met
- marcher took over key buildings 24-25 and on the 25-27 key members of the government were arrest and Lenin was appointed chairman of the first soviet government
- buildings like smolny institute and winter palace
- Cheka secret police was established
- took over completely by arresting opposition and shutting down newspaper except for propaganda
- the soviet of the people's commissars was set up
- Sovnarkom who were the most important ministers
- Lenin returned on the 3 of April and devilered his 'April theses'
- Petrograd Soviet
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