The October Revolution Flashcards
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Effect of the Kornilov Affair for the Soviets
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- Large increase in support via their success and use of propaganda (eg. “Pravda”)
- Oct 9 - Adopted a resolution to create a ‘military revolutionary centre’ to protect Petrograd.
2
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Military Revolutionary Committee (“MRC”)
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- Set up by Trotsky and Dzerzhinsky
- Included 66 members, 48 of which were Bolsheviks
3
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Securing Allegiance to the Soviet
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-Commissars were sent to all Petrograd garrison units: 16 out of 18 declared their allegiance to the Soviet, rather than the Provisional Government
Trotsky largely organised the revolution, sending Bolshevik speakers around factories to whip up working-class support
-Troops are massed in the Bolshevik headquarters- Red Guards, former soldiers and policemen
4
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Resources of the Military Revolutionary Committee (“MRC”)
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Controlled: -200,000 Red Guards -60,000 Baltic sailors -150,000 sailors (All were of the remaining Petrograd Garrison unit)
5
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Date of the Attack
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October 24th
6
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Preventing the Provisional Government from Gaining Help
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- Soldiers who had previously served the Provisional Government offered little resistance and the Petrograd Garrison backed the uprising
- Soldiers loyal to the MRC occupied the post and telegraph offices, as well as the railway stations. The Bolsheviks therefore extended their control over the city’s infrastructure
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End of the Revolution
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- Trotsky and the Red Guards successfully arrested the majority of the Provisional Government
- The Winter Palace was defended by a small number of female troops who were outnumbered.
- Oct 25 - the MRC announces that the Provisional Government has been ‘deposed’. Kerensky flees to America.
8
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Support of the Kronstadt Sailors
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- The sailors wanted a Soviet government, though not specifically a Bolshevik one
- A backup plan of threatening the government with the battleship “Aurora” is never needed
