October/November Revolution 1917
Notes:
- The Kronstadt Mutiny- Navel Base off of pertersberg- demanded that soviets take power. Later on known as Soveit Union.
- 20,000 armed sailors took control of Petrograd and demanded the Soviet take power
- Kornilov affair - The Bolsheviks are seen as defenders of Petrograd- were not going to fight our own city
- Kornilov threatened to attack the city
- Bolsheviks led by Trotsky (military side)
- Lenin led the Petrograd uprising and it was bloodless- all it took was to fire a warning shoot at the winter palace.
- Cruiser Aurora fired one blank shot at Winter palace
- Winter Palace defended by Cossacks, Women’s Battalion of Death and cadets
OUTCOME: Result of this take over- communist government in charge
- Power now belonged to the Soviets
- Mensheviks and the Centre-right believed the Bolsheviks had gained power illegally.
- They walked out of the Second Congress of Soviets
- Decree on land allowed peasants to seize private land and redistribute it
- Decree on Peace proposed a withdrawal from WWI (Treaty of Brest-Litovsk) Lost it for less then a year because got it back at Paris peace Conference when Germany had to give it all back.
SUMMARY :
Quotes:
“Go where you belong from now on... into the dustbin of history!" ????
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Winter Palace