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On March 11 the Duma ignored the tsar's order to dissolve itself, while fires in the city broke out that very night.
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On March 12 the Duma elected an Executive Committee which assumed dictatorial powers on behalf of the Duma
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Also on March 12 the revolutionary instinct of the mob was released. Prisons were opened and the prisoners mingled with the demonstrators
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On March 12 the Executive Committee of Soldiers and Workers Deputies was founded.
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Two days later the Czarist Regime was overthrowned while an uprising in Moscow was happening and was successful.
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The tsar in Pskov abdicate the next day.
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Grand duke Michael had refused the crown unless the will of a constituent assembly was heard.
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On March 15 civil liberties are proclaimed and the promise of convening a constituent assembly is made.The police is replaced with a people's militia
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The Bolsheviks soon elected a new Central Committee
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Nicholas II was arrested at army headquarters and imprisoned at Tsarkoe Selo
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The U.S.A. was the first government to recognize the Provisional Government
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Joseph Stalin-a senior member of the Central Committee founded in 1912, returned from exile on March 25 & closed down the temporary bureau and taking control of Pravda.
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Meanwhile, controversy between the Provisional Government and the Leftists soon comes into the open.Miliukov promised that Russia would fight on.
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Soviets call for peace.
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A Party Conference was then held on April 10 to straighten things out
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The Provisional Government belated & responds to charges of pursuing a "militaristic and imperialistic" foreign policy by also declaring itself in favor of peace without annexations and reparations.
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Miliukov was discredited since he call for continuation of war and sent a note to allies on May 1
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Kerensky then visited the front and tried to rouse the soldiers to fight on, actually launching an offensive in July 1917.
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In desperation he was made commander-in-chief on July 30, but it was too late.Kornilov thought together with Kerensky he could re-establish order.
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On October 21 Lenin returned secretly to the city to participate in the Central Committee meeting of October 23
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The Soviets established a Military Revolutionary Committee with Leon Trotsky as chairman.
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On November 5 the Military Revolutionary Committee appointed commissars for all military units around St. Petersburg.
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The Insurrection proper took place on the evening of November 6
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Late in the evening of November 6 the Soviet Congress met as planned.The Bolsheviks now had an absolute majority and could sanction what had happened. The rising in St. Petersburg had succeeded. The Bolsheviks were in power.
