Oct, 1917 EVIDENCE Flashcards
On 10 October, 1917, the Bolsheviks’ Central Committee voted […]
for a resolution saying that the time was ripe for an […]
10-2
armed uprising
The Bolsheviks created a revolutionary military committee […]
within the Petrograd Soviet, led by the Soviet’s president, […]
Milrevcom
Trotsky
Milrevcom had the support (or at least the neutrality) of the capital’s […]
Garrison (Petrograd Garrison)
The committee methodically planned to seize […]
strategic locations through the city
On 25 October, Bolsheviks led their forces in the uprising in which city?
Against who’s Provisional Government?
Which sailors threw in their support?
Petrograd
Kerensky’s
Kronstadt sailors
Milrevcom was based out of which heavily defended palace?
Smolny palace
Red Guards captured major government facilities and key vantage point with little […]
opposition
The Petrograd Garrison and most of the cities military units reacted how?
They joined the insurrection against the Provisional Government
Kerensky and the Provisional Government were virtually […]
helpless
What ship signalled the start of the Bolshevik revolution on the Winter Palace?
When?
The Aurora
25 October, 1917
As the guns were ringing out across Petrograd, what Congress of Soviets was getting underway in the great hall at the Smolny?
The Second
The (CoS) meeting began with speeches from Mensheviks / moderate SRs, condemning […]
Who walked out?
This left the soviets almost entirely in which party’s hands?
the Bolsheviks for seizing power illegally
Mensheviks and moderate SRs
Bolshevik
(CoS meeting)
The following evening who spoke?
The congress then debated and passed the first soviet decrees on […]
Lenin
peace and land
One of the new government’s first steps was the formation of an executive committee […]
Sovnarkom
The first Sovnarkom contained 17 different […]
all of whom were Bolsheviks, selected by the Bolshevik party’s […]
commissars
Central Committee
