what happened in the bolshevik revolution

10th october

lenin smuggled himself inteo petrograd, bolsheviks agreed

early october

• kerensky tried to send the most radical army units out of the city

• rumours that he planned to abandon the city to the germans

• allowed the soviet to set up the MRC

• MRC was dominated bythe bolsheviks and controlled by trotsky

24th october

• Kerensky sent loyal troops to close bolshevik newspapers, restrcit the power of the MRC and raise the bridges linking the working class-districts to the centre of the city

• gave the bolsheviks an excuse for action

night of 24th october

• units of the red guard, sailors and petrograd garrison soldiers, about 5000 men in total were sent out to seize key points in the city

• lenin remained in hiding until darkness fell and then travelled to the smolny to link up with trotstky

25th october

• petrograd began as normal

• kerensky, dosing himself on brandy and morphine, sought loyal troops to help him deal with the bolshevik threat but finding none, he left for the front, had to borrow a car from the amrican embassy to escape, disguised as a nurse

• red guards and sailors surrounded the winter palace

• red guards were easily able to enter the building whilst many ministers left by the back door

• just before midnight the bolsheviks arrested the remaining members of the provisional govt who offered no resistance

26th october

• the second congress of the all-russian soviets met

• trotsky announced that the winter palace had been taken and that the bolsheviks had seized in the name of the soviet

% of city involved

5% of all the workers and soldiers in the city

number of deaths

5 deaths- provisional govt had nothing to defend themselves with