But overthrowing the existing government turned out to be the easy part. The “storming of the Winter Palace” has gone down in history as the climactic moment of the October Revolution. That night, Bolshevik Red Guards broke into the palace and arrested the ministers, bringing the Provisional Government to an end.įormer Tsar Nicholas II in Tsarskoye Selo following his abdication in March 1917, ( left) and Bolshevik forces marching on Red Square, 1917 ( right). In fact, at this crucial moment Provisional Government ministers could find almost no one willing to defend them. This government had ruled Russia since Tsar Nicholas II’s abdication the preceding February, but it had lost almost all support as Russia’s horrific World War I casualties continued to mount. By the following evening, they controlled the entire city with the exception of the Winter Palace, the seat of the Provisional Government. One hundred years ago, in wartime Petrograd, Russian radicals known as the Bolsheviks carried out “ the Great October Socialist Revolution.” On the night of October 24, 1917, Bolshevik Red Guards began to take control of key points in the Russian capital-railway stations, telegraph offices, and government buildings. Vladimir Lenin addressing a crowd in Moscow.
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