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October Revolution

The Bolshevik seizure of power in Petrograd on 7 November 1917 (25 October in the old Russian calendar).

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Dates
7–8 Nov 1917
Place
Saint Petersburg
Also known as
Bolshevik Revolution, October Revolution of 1917, Great October Socialist Revolution
How each side tells it

According to Vladimir Lenin

According to Digital History Reader (Virginia Tech)

According to Erich Ludendorff

According to Alexander Kerensky

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On 7 November 1917 the Bolsheviks, acting through the Petrograd Soviet’s Revolutionary Military Committee chaired by Leon Trotsky, deposed the Russian Provisional Government. Vladimir Lenin became head of the new Soviet government.

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Timeline 1 date
  1. 7–8 Nov 1917 October Revolution
Proof 11 sources
  1. Revelations from the Russian Archives: Internal Workings of the Soviet Union, Library of Congress. Primary record
    Having come to power in October 1917 by means of a coup d'état, Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks spent the next few years struggling to maintain their rule against widespread popular opposition.
    They had overthrown the provisional democratic government and were inherently hostile to any form of popular participation in politics.
  2. To the Citizens of Russia!, Marxists Internet Archive (Lenin, Collected Works, vol. 26, Progress Publishers), 7 Nov 1917. Primary record
    The Provisional Government has been deposed. State power has passed into the hands of the organ of the Petrograd Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies--the Revolutionary Military Committee, which heads the Petrograd proletariat and the garrison.
    The Provisional Government has been deposed.
    The Provisional Government has been deposed. State power has passed into the hands of the organ of the Petrograd Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies
  3. Foreign Relations of the United States, 1918, Russia, Volume I: list of persons, U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Primary record
    Trotsky, L. D. (Bronstein), Chairman of the Petrograd Soviet of Workmen’s and Soldiers’ Deputies, October 8, 1917; Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs, November 8, 1917, to March 13, 1918
  4. Our Revolution (Apropos of N. Sukhanov's Notes), Marxists Internet Archive (Lenin, Collected Works, vol. 33, Progress Publishers), 30 May 1923. Primary record
    Does it not occur to any of them to ask: what about the people that found itself in a revolutionary situation such as that created during the first imperialist war?
  5. Module 03: 1917, Did the War Cause a Revolution? (Introduction), Digital History Reader, Virginia Tech. Scholarship & press
    While war was clearly one cause of Russia's revolutionary crisis, this unit examines the many factors informing the revolutionary upheavals of February and October 1917.
  6. "Left-Wing" Communism: an Infantile Disorder, ch. 3: The Principal Stages in the History of Bolshevism, Marxists Internet Archive (Lenin, Collected Works, vol. 31, Progress Publishers), 1920. Primary record
    Without such thorough, circumspect and long preparations, we could not have achieved victory in October 1917, or have consolidated that victory.
  7. My War Memories, 1914-1918, volume II, Hutchinson (scan on the Internet Archive), 1919. Primary record
    The events in Russia gave me no cause for complete satisfaction. They considerably eased the military situation, but elements of the greatest danger still remained.
    By sending Lenin to Russia our Government had, moreover, assumed a great responsibility. From a military point of view his journey was justified, for Russia had to be laid low.
  8. Two Years of Soviet Power, Marxists Internet Archive (Lenin, Collected Works, vol. 30, Progress Publishers), 7 Nov 1919. Primary record Archived copy
    On this, the second, anniversary of the establishment of Soviet power, I wish to extend greetings to the many millions of working peasants who have been liberated from landowner and capitalist oppression and say a few words about that liberation.
  9. The Catastrophe: Kerensky's Own Story of the Russian Revolution, ch. XIX: Conclusion, Marxists Internet Archive (text of the 1927 English edition), 1927. Primary record Archived copy
    The forcible seizure of the machinery of government by the Bolsheviki in November opened for Russia the period of civil war and terrorism, the period which has not yet found the conclusion.
  10. Speech at a Meeting of Delegates from the Poor Peasants' Committees of Central Gubernias, November 8, 1918, Marxists Internet Archive (Lenin, Collected Works, vol. 28, Progress Publishers), 8 Nov 1918. Primary record Archived copy
    After the October Revolution we finished off the landowner and took away his land.
  11. The Catastrophe: Kerensky's Own Story of the Russian Revolution, ch. XVIII: Gatchina, Marxists Internet Archive (text of the 1927 English edition), 1927. Primary record Archived copy
    With the hands of the Bolsheviki the Provisional Government was overthrown.
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