17 - Lenin And The Bolshevik Takeover, April-October 1917 Flashcards
Where did Lenin return from after being exiled in April 1917? What famous speech did he give when he returned?
Switzerland
The April Theses
What did Lenin demand about power in the April Theses? What did he want to end?
All power is given to the Soviet
War
Who did Lenin want land for? What was he accepting about Russia?
Peasants
Peasants were wanted to rule Russia
Who did the April Theses unite with Lenin? What Committee did he manage to win over?
Bolsheviks
Central Committee
Who did Lenin believe in non-co-operation with?
Provisional Government
Who joined Lenin in July 1917? When did he return from exile?
Trotsky
May
What threatened to undermine Lenin’s efforts in July? Who did this event attract?
Uprisings
Bolsheviks
Who did the Provisional Government use to break up the protests in July? What happened to several prominent Bolshevik leaders?
Troops
They were arrested
What key figure was arrested along the Bolsheviks in July 1917? Who fled to Finland?
Trotsky
Lenin
Who became PM in July 1917? Who became commander-in-chief?
Kerensky
General Lavr Kornilov
What did Kornilov believe he could restore? Who did he prepare to bring?
Strong government
Troops from Petrograd
Who opposed Kornilov’s “coup”? When did the “coup” take place?
Kerensky
25th-30th August 1917
Who did Kornilov ask to help defend the city during the “coup”? Who else was given weaponry?
Petrograd Soviet
Bolsheviks
Who halted trains carrying troops? Who had Kornilov arrested?
Railway workers
Kerensky
Whose support increased following the Kornilov Affair? Whose position did it weaken?
Bolsheviks
Kerensky’s
Who refused compromise with the PG? Who did they grow at the expense of?
Bolsheviks
Mensheviks and SRs
What did SRs and Mensheviks urge in Russia? Who did they work with?
Unity
PG
In what 2 Soviets did Bolsheviks get a majority in September 1917? Who became chairman of the second soviet?
Moscow and Petrograd
Trotsky
How many Bolsheviks were there in October 1917? How many Red Guards?
200,000
10,000
What did Lenin urge from Finland? What were the Bolshevik Central Committee reluctant to do?
Seizure of power
Lead an uprising against the PG
What was needed for the Bolshevik Central Committee to lead an uprising?
A mandate from an assembly
Who returned secretly to Petrograd on the 7th October 1917? What did Kerensky order on the same day?
Lenin
Radical troops left Petrograd
What did the PS set up on the 9th October 1917? Who set this up?
Military Revolutionary Committee
Trotsky
What did the Military Revolutionary Committee claim responsibility for?
Defence of Petrograd
What vote did Lenin win on the 10th October 1917? What did he want replaced?
An “armed uprising”
The PG with the PS
How many Red Guards and Kronstadt sailors seized Petrograd between the 24th-25th October 1917? Who fled Petrograd?
8,000
Kerensky
Who broke into the Winter Palace on the 26th October 1917? Who was arrested?
Red Guards and civilians
Remaining PG members
What does Historian Edward Acton state about the 1917 Revolution?
“The 1917 Revolution was the product of popular revolt against oppression”
What does Historian Richard Pipes state about what Russia experienced that led to a bring down of the Tsarist regime?
“Russia experienced a revolution that brought down Tsarism”
