The Workers’ October Revolution

Meanwhile the Provisional Government kept Russia in the war, Lenin wrote a document called the April Thesis, promising “peace, bread, land and freedom”. He wanted:

  • the end of the capitalist war.
  • power for the soviets: elected committees of workers, peasants and soldiers.
  • A revolution against the Provisional Government as soon as possible (he adapted Marx´s ideas to the Russian context, this was called marxismleninism).

Leon Trotsky set up the Red Guards, a Bolshevik military force. On the 23rd of October (1917) a revolution took place. The Bolsheviks, led by Lenin, attacked the winter Palace in St. Petersburg and seized power. Bolsheviks moved the capital to Moscow and made peace with Central Empires: Treaty of Brest–Litovsk (Unit 5)

In 1917 one of the first incidents of the October Revolution took place on the cruiser.
Otto Jula. Cruiser Aurora (CC BY-SA)

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