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Committees form for just about everything. • March 8: The Provisional Government issues a program of goals and democratic principles, including civil rights and self-government through town dumas. It's hugely optimistic and immediately compromised by the demands of war. The Tsar and his family are
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The moderate Menshevik and SR moderate parties dominate, while the Bolsheviks are sidelined.
• June 18-July 1: The Kerensky Offensive on the Eastern Front, plotted by the PG Defence Minister Fedor Kerensky, who believes a victory will restore morale. Initial successes are lost after German counter attacks; over 400,000 Russian casualties. There are new demonstrations against the war and soldiers increasingly turn to the pro-peace Bolsheviks. July
• July 2: Trotsky (no longer a Menshevik) and his party merge with the Bolsheviks.
• July 3-4: The July Days, an armed insurrection/demonstration by soldiers and workers in Petrograd against both the PG and the PS for their failures; low ranking Bolsheviks assist and only chaos and indecision prevents a coup. The PG uses troops to break the protest and arrest high-ranking Bolsheviks; in reality, these only followed, not led, the …show more content…
Devoted to defending Petrograd by arming workers and organising solders, the Bolsheviks are its leading creators and commanders.
• October 10: Having gained a majority in the Petrograd and Moscow Soviets, the Bolshevik Central Committee vote 10-2 in favour of Lenin's demand to seize power (he is present, in disguise). No timetable is set, but a 2nd All Russian Congress of Soviets is to be organised so it can also vote.
• October 15-18: Antonov-Duseenko travels to the Northern Front (WW1's Eastern Front) to find and organise support for Bolshevik revolution under the guise of the MRC. He is very successful.
• October 16: Bolshevik Central Committee discuss plans again; doubts are raised, but the MRC is identified as a potential tool of
The moderate Menshevik and SR moderate parties dominate, while the Bolsheviks are sidelined.
• June 18-July 1: The Kerensky Offensive on the Eastern Front, plotted by the PG Defence Minister Fedor Kerensky, who believes a victory will restore morale. Initial successes are lost after German counter attacks; over 400,000 Russian casualties. There are new demonstrations against the war and soldiers increasingly turn to the pro-peace Bolsheviks. July
• July 2: Trotsky (no longer a Menshevik) and his party merge with the Bolsheviks.
• July 3-4: The July Days, an armed insurrection/demonstration by soldiers and workers in Petrograd against both the PG and the PS for their failures; low ranking Bolsheviks assist and only chaos and indecision prevents a coup. The PG uses troops to break the protest and arrest high-ranking Bolsheviks; in reality, these only followed, not led, the …show more content…
Devoted to defending Petrograd by arming workers and organising solders, the Bolsheviks are its leading creators and commanders.
• October 10: Having gained a majority in the Petrograd and Moscow Soviets, the Bolshevik Central Committee vote 10-2 in favour of Lenin's demand to seize power (he is present, in disguise). No timetable is set, but a 2nd All Russian Congress of Soviets is to be organised so it can also vote.
• October 15-18: Antonov-Duseenko travels to the Northern Front (WW1's Eastern Front) to find and organise support for Bolshevik revolution under the guise of the MRC. He is very successful.
• October 16: Bolshevik Central Committee discuss plans again; doubts are raised, but the MRC is identified as a potential tool of