"Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever". Vladimir Lenin
Main Points:
Summary:
November 1917 the Provisional Government was in complete collapse. In the meantime, the Bolshevik party, helped by German money, had built up an efficient party organisation, a brilliant propaganda machine, and a powerful private army (the Red Guards). When Lenin moved to take over, the Provisional Government was unable to stop him.
- Bolshevik Revolution, was a seizure of state power instrumental in the larger Russian Revolution of 1917.
- The revolution was led by the Bolsheviks, who used their influence in the Petrograd Soviet to organize the armed forces.
- Bolshevik Red Guards forces under the Military Revolutionary Committee began the takeover of government buildings on 24 October 1917.
- Bolsheviks led by Trotsky (military side) and Lenin led the Petrograd uprising and it was bloodless.
Summary:
November 1917 the Provisional Government was in complete collapse. In the meantime, the Bolshevik party, helped by German money, had built up an efficient party organisation, a brilliant propaganda machine, and a powerful private army (the Red Guards). When Lenin moved to take over, the Provisional Government was unable to stop him.