The October Revolution was the Bolshevik seizure of power in Petrograd, then the Russian capital, which overthrew the Provisional Government that had ruled since the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II. It took place on 25 October under the old Russian calendar, which corresponds to 7 November in the modern calendar. Armed workers, soldiers and sailors under the Military Revolutionary Committee, directed by Leon Trotsky and supported by Vladimir Lenin, occupied key points and stormed the Winter Palace with little fighting. The Congress of Soviets then approved decrees on peace and land, and Lenin led a new government. The Bolsheviks faced opposition that grew into the Russian Civil War, which they won by 1922.
Before and after
- from 29 September 1917 to 20 October 1917Operation Albion
- from 19 October 1917 to 3 November 1917Battle of Moon Sound
- from 24 October 1917 to 19 November 1917Battle of Caporetto
- from 25 October 1917 to 25 December 1991Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
- from 25 October 1917 to 26 October 1917October Revolution
- 31 October 1917Battle of Beersheba
- from 1 November 1917 to 2 November 1917Third Battle of Gaza
- 2 November 1917The Balfour Declaration
- from 7 November 1917 to 18 March 1921Ukrainian People's Republic
More in Wars, politics & history
- from 7 November 1917 to 25 October 1922Russian Civil War
- 23 August 1939Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact
- from 30 November 1939 to 13 March 1940Winter War
- from 22 June 1941 to 7 May 1945Eastern Front
- from 22 June 1941 to 5 December 1941Operation Barbarossa
- 7 December 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
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