The October revolution Flashcards
When did Trotsky and Lenin overthrow the government?
-October 1917
Who resigned from the provisional government after the June offensive and on what date?
-Kadet ministers
-3th October.
How did the Bolsheviks use the resignations of Kadet ministers as an opportunity?
-encouraged the workers and sailors to protest.
What happened when the provisional government tried to shut down two Bolshevik newspapers?
-Trotsky built on fears of Kerensky and tried to justify using military revolutionary committee for defensive actions.
What did Lenin support after he came back to Petrograd when the Bolshevik newspapers were shut down?
-persuaded the Bolshevik central committee to have an armed seizure of power in Petrograd.
-ignored proposal until a month later in October.
-not all Bolsheviks on board yet.
On what day did the attack on the provisional government occur?
October 24th
Where did the military revolutionary committee occupy?
-post and telegraph offices.
-starve PG of outside help.
Who did the red guard successfully arrest?
-The majority of the provisional government.
On what day was it announced 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 Mensheviks and SR’s do in protest of the second all Russians congress and what did this mean?
-they walked out.
-meant a Bolshevik majority
-congress of soviets made a new constitution.
How many people were involved in the October revolution despite soviet depictions?
25,000 people.
Why did the Bolsheviks present the October revolution as a mass uprising?
-Because in reality there was little resistance.
-Bolsheviks merely wandered the corridors and arrested the members.
What evidence is there to suggest the uprising was popular?
-war and Kerensky unpopular
-Kerensky unprepared and released to the newspapers when it would take place.
-PG never elected + dual authority
-no army intervention despite warnings.
What evidence is there to suggest the revolution was inevitable?
-Trotsky + Bolsheviks had taken over the PS.
