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Revolts against the Tsar.
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Strikes start breaking out.
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Strikes are spread and gain magnitude.
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Manifestation before the Tsar's Palace.
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On the 7th: the entire country goes on strike demanding bread.
On the 12th: army stops supporting the Tsar. Duma takes over the government.
On the 15th: the Tsar abdicates. -
New York Times headline about the Tsar abdicating.
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Lenin's slogan along with "All power to the soviets". Main ideas of his April Theses.
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Lenin returns to Russia and sets out his April Theses (encouraged a second revolution).
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Army starts falling appart because of the desserters. Peasants take control of the countryside.
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Bolsheviks against the war rebel and fail. Lenin flees to Finland. Kerensky (Minister for War) takes over the government.
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Bolshevik armed uprising in which they (as it can be seen in the picture) were crushed.
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Kornilov (leader of the army) marches with his troops to Moscow to get rid of the Bolsheviks and the Provisional Government. These two ally so he fails.
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Kerensky's government ends when he loses support from the army, the peasants and the workers.
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On the 6th: the Red Guards (Bolsheviks) take control of post offices, bridges and the State Bank
On the 7th: Bolsheviks were in control of most of Petrograd. Red Guards storm in the Winter Palace and arrest all ministers except for Kerensky who escapes. He tries to win Russia back, fails and flees. -
The Bolshevik revolution was ideologically led by Lenin who can be seen in the picture. The colour red is also seen since this colour represented them.
