October Rev Events and Consequences

Question 1

When did Lenin return to Petrograd?

Answer 1

April 1917

Question 2

What did Trotsky take control of?

Answer 2

Fortress of Peter and Paul and its arsenal

Question 3

What were the Provincial government military moves?

Answer 3

1. Ordered cruiser Aurora to be moved
2. Women’s battalion of death moved to the winter palace
3. Cossacks and students trainees moved into palace
4. PRAVDA seized by government forces

Question 4

What were the Bolshevik moves?

Answer 4

1. Aurora does not move
2. Red guards retake PRAVDA
3. ..

Question 5

What did the Bolsheviks do on OCT 24?

Answer 5

Forces took railway stations and remaining bridges
- Torpedo boats left in place to support them

Question 6

What happened to Kerensky on OCT 24th?

Answer 6

Lost brief to rule by no-confidence of pre-parliament

Question 7

What did the red army do on OCT 25th?

Answer 7

Seized state banks and telephone system and lay siege to winter palace

Question 8

When did Kerensky flee?

Answer 8

Oct 25th

Question 9

Why did Kerensky flee?

Answer 9

Because he could no longer mobilize after the red army took over

Question 10

Who led the Mensheviks?

Answer 10

Martov

Question 11

What did Trotsky say to Martov?

Answer 11

” Go where you belong, to the dust heap of history”

Question 12

What was Martov’s observation?

Answer 12

” A purely Bolshevik government has no choice but to maintain it self by political error”

Question 13

When did democratic rule become official?

Answer 13

Mar 1918
- When the bolsh renamed themselves communist party ( lasted 70Y)