October Revolution
November 7–8, 1917 · Petrograd
The Bolshevik-led insurrection in Petrograd that overthrew the Russian Provisional Government. The Winter Palace was stormed on the night of 7-8 November, bringing Vladimir Lenin's Bolsheviks to power and starting Soviet rule.
Key people
Vladimir Lenin
Leader of the Bolsheviks · Bolsheviks
Leon Trotsky
Chairman of the Petrograd Soviet's Military Revolutionary Committee · Bolsheviks
Alexander Kerensky
Head of the Provisional Government, Deposed by the insurrection · Provisional Government
Yakov Sverdlov
Chairman of the Bolshevik Party Secretariat, Key organizer of the insurrection · Bolsheviks
Felix Dzerzhinsky
Bolshevik organizer, Released from tsarist prison by the February Revolution; active in the October insurrection · Bolsheviks
Pyotr Krasnov
military commander, led the Cossack advance on Petrograd for Kerensky · Provisional Government
Participants
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Bolsheviks
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Russian Provisional Government
Provisional Government
Before and after
- Led to
- Russian Civil War November 7, 1917 – June 16, 1923
Junker mutiny November 11, 1917
Related events
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