October revolution pt2 Flashcards
On what day did the attack on the provisional government occur?
October the 24th.
PG saw this as futle.
Where did the millitary revolutionary commitee occupy?
-post and telegraph offices.
-starve PG of outside help.
Who did the red guard sucessfully arrest?
The majority of the provisional government
On what day was it annoucned that the provisional government had been deposed?
October the 25th.
-Kerensky fled to Petrograd.
Who did Lenin and Trotsky get lots of support from?
Second all Russian congress.
What did the Menchavicks and SR’s do in protest of the second all Russians congress and what did this mean?
-they walked out.
-meant a Bolchevick majority
-congress of soviets made a new consiitution.
What was at the top of the new government?
-The Sovnarkom
-Lenin the chairman.
What decrees and actions were done in 1917 whilst there was no majoirty in congress?
1- decree of peace- WW1
2-Authorising peasant seizure of land.
