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Mind Map by paul.s.cockburn, updated more than 1 year ago
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November 1917 Revolution
- Causes
- Strengths of the Bolsheviks
- Trotsky's organisational skills
- Bolshevik propaganda
was successful in putting
across their ideas
- Bolsheviks were determined and ruthless
- Kornalov Affair meant that
they were armed
- Bolshevik role in preventing the
Kornalov Affair increased their popularity
- Lenin's leadership
- Promised an end to
rule by the rich; a
fairer, more equal
society
- Slogans immediately appealed to various groups
- PEACE: promised to end
the very unpopular war
- BREAD: promised to solve
problems of food shortages
- LAND: promised
the land would
be given to the
peasants
- PEACE: promised to end
the very unpopular war
- Trotsky's organisational skills
- Weaknesses of the P.G.
- P.G. lacked authority
- not elected
- Problems of 'Dual Power' with the
Petrograd Soviet e.g. Soviet order No. 1
- Kerensky's tactical errors
- Asked Soviet and Bolsheviks
to help to defeat Kornilov Affair
- Decision to continue the war
- Allowed Bolsheviks back into
Russia after July Days
- Asked Soviet and Bolsheviks
to help to defeat Kornilov Affair
- Reforms granted freedoms but did not
improve conditions for the people
- Civilians discontented with living
standards and shortages
- Conditions for industrial
workers did not improve
- Unemployment rose
- Food shortages continued to
worsen and prices rose
- Peasants were
not given land
and began to
seize it for
themselves
- Civilians discontented with living
standards and shortages
- P.G. lacked authority
- not elected
- Strengths of the Bolsheviks
- Timeline
- 23rd October
- Trotsky organised the takeover of the city. It was no secret -
the newspapers carried articles about it and the Bolsheviks
distributed leaflets saying it was going to happen
- Trotsky organised the takeover of the city. It was no secret -
the newspapers carried articles about it and the Bolsheviks
distributed leaflets saying it was going to happen
- 8th November
- Lenin announces the new government
- Lenin announces the new government
- 7th November
- Red guards take control of bridges, main telegraph office, railway
stations, power stations and other key places such as the state bank
- 9pm: Aurora (ship whose sailors support the Bolsheviks)
fires a blank shot to signal the start of the revolution
- Kerensky escapes the city
- Bolsheviks move on the Winter Palace and take control easily
- Red guards take control of bridges, main telegraph office, railway
stations, power stations and other key places such as the state bank
- 23rd October
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