October/November Revolution
LENIN
-returns from exile in Switzerland in April
-April thesis denouncing war (peace, land & bread)
-Germans helped Lenin by giving him money and transportation to get through Finland into Russia
OCT./NOV.
-Petrograd under control of 20 000 sailors and forced the Soviet into power
-Kornilov affair (Bolsheviks seen as protectors of Petrograd)
-Trotsky led the military side (Bolsheviks)
-Lenin led Petrograd uprising (bloodless)
-returns from exile in Switzerland in April
-April thesis denouncing war (peace, land & bread)
-Germans helped Lenin by giving him money and transportation to get through Finland into Russia
OCT./NOV.
-Petrograd under control of 20 000 sailors and forced the Soviet into power
-Kornilov affair (Bolsheviks seen as protectors of Petrograd)
-Trotsky led the military side (Bolsheviks)
-Lenin led Petrograd uprising (bloodless)
"A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution." Vladimir Lenin
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Summary: Bolsheviks took it under their hand to protect Petrograd, lead by Trotsky. Also became know as the Kornilov Affair