The October Revolution, 1917

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Key Dates:

  • March 2nd- Formation of Prince Lvov's Provisional Government
  • March 12th- Kamenev and Stalin arrive in Petrograd
  • April 3rd- Lenin returns to Russia
  • April 4th- Lenin issues The April Theses
  • April 20th- Formation of the Red Guard paramilitaries
  • June 16th- The Kerensky Offensive
  • July 3rd-6th- The July Days
  • July 8th- Kerensky becomes Prime Minister
  • August 30th- The Bolsheviks are released from prison to defend the city
  • September 25th- Bolsheviks gain the majority in the Soviet
  • October 9th- The Petrograd Soviet create the Military Revolutionary Council, led by Trotsky
  • October 23rd-25th- The October Revolution

Lenin returned to Russia shortly after the conclusion of the February Revolution, mostly in anger at the state of both his country and party. His orders had been for the most part disobeyed and as such he had to correct it. On the 4th of April 1917, Lenin delivered the April Theses, a rejection of the current party ideals and change. This included:

  • Working for a new revolution
  • Not working with other parties
  • Overthrowing of the PG
  • Handing power to the workers
  • Handing authority to the soviets

The plan highlighted the differences in the party. Lenin himself wanted revolution, but many party members like Stalin and Kamenev had wanted Accomodationism and to work with the other parties temporarily.

As a result of Lenin's return, tension soon turned toward the government. There was large scale anger at how the war had not ended, but people did not acknowledge the fact that if Russia left the war it would lose out on financial loans and good democratic relations. Similarly, there was anger over the lack of…

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