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1917 revolution
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Events
On October 7th Lenin secretly returned to Russia. Kerensky the new prime minister knew Lenin wanted to seize power so he sent more army units out of the capital. This meant that the Soviet claimed Kerensky was abandoning the capital. So the soviet set up the 'Military Revolutionary Committee' (MRC) Its declared purpose was was to control troop movement.
On October 10th Lenin attempted to persuade the Bolshevik party that "an armed rising is the order of the day." Kerensky attempted to close down two Bolshevik newspapers and to restrict the MRC's power. He even ordered the bridges, linking the Working class areas to the centre of Petrograd, to be raised. This was a big mistake as the Propagandists said this was a betrayal of the soviet and they used this to act
Throughout the night of the 24-25th October, with the support of MRC and in the name of the Second congress of soviets, 5000 sailors and soldiers from Kronstadt moved into the city and Bolshevik red Guards Seized positions around the capital such as the bank, power stations, railway stations and a post office.
Since Kerensky could not rely on the Petrograd troops to defend the PG, he left for the front. He hoped to make contact with loyal troops and get them to defend the city.
The rest of the government met in an emergency session in the winter palace, a blank shot from the guns of a supporting battleship Aurora was heard. This was the signal for the beginning of the Bolsheviks attack.
The October Revolution in Petrograd which led to the Bolsheviks taking power, was actually a small scale affair. Trotsky claimed that 25,000 - 30,000 were actively involved. it seems that only 10-15,000 people were there at the time and not all of these would have been involved in the storming of the palace.
Much of Petrograd remained unaffected by by the disturbances and even Trotsky stated that the revolution was only a series of small operations, calculated and prepared in advance.
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Tsar's abdictation
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The Tsar and his family were placed on house arrest as were many of the Tsar's ministers. this led to the end of 304 years of the Romanov dynasty
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Bolshevik support
gradually Lenin started gaining support from his speeches by the end of April, Lenin had won over the majority of the central committee of the bolshevik party. In July there were lots of riots from the soldiers, workers and sailors these were known as the July days warrants for arrest of the Bolsheviks were issued and several were followed out including Trotsky's troops loyal to the Soviet dispersed the crowds and and the Soviet newspapers denounced the role of the Bolsheviks on 8th of July Kerensky replaced Prince Lvov as Prime Minister and it might have appeared that the Bolsheviks moment had passed. Their cause was saved by the coup when the Bolsheviks were released Some workers took to the streets this time supposedly in defence of the PG. Both fix easy opportunity to organise bands of workers commanded by their red guards. consequently Bolsheviks were elected in increased numbers to Soviets throughout urban Russia and in Duma elections in Moscow Bolshevik support increased by 164% between June and December.