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Germany declares war on Russia, which causes a sense of patriotic union among the Russian nation. -
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St. Petersburg is renamed as Petrograd since the “Germanic” names are changed to sound Russian. -
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Part of the War Industries committee called the “Workers Group” has its members arrested by the secret police. This was after appealing for a new provisional Government. -
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Petrograd (St. Petersburg ) is starving. The cities stockpile of flour will only last another 10 days. The meat supply is completely gone and crowds of women break into -
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Lenin delivers his April Thesis. The April Thesis was a series of directives and notes issued by Vladimir Lenin upon his return to Petrograd from being in exile in Switzerland. He called for soviets to take power and called for new communist policies. -
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The Provisional Government passed a law allowing the freedom of meetings and unions. -
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Massive May Day celebrations occur in Russia. Foreign Minister Miliukov secretly promises Russia’s allies that they will continue in war until victory. -
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Lenin is arrested by the Provisional Government because they claim he is a German spy. -
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Lenin goes into hiding -
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Russia is declared a republic by the Duma. -
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Vladimir Lenin, the Bolshevik leader led the leftist revolutionaries in nearless bloodless uprising at the capitial of Russia (Petrograd) at the time, against the Kerensky Provisional Government. The Bolsheviks took over major government facilities before an assualt on the Winter Place took place. The Bolsheviks insurgents had little opposition so they were basically able to walk into the building and take it over. -
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The Kerensky government is overthrown by the Bolsheviks and Lenin is installed as the leader of Russia (“October Revolution”) against the will of the Mensheviks and of the Left Socialist-Revolutionaries. -
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Lenin creates the secret police Cheka under the command of Feliks Dzerzinisky.
