October Revolution of 1917

October Revolution

Part of the Russian Revolution, Revolutions of 1917–23

Red Guards at Vulkan factory in 1917

Date	25 October (7 November, NS) 1917
Location	Petrograd, Russian Republic
Result	End of Russian Provisional Government, Russian Republic and dual power Creation of Soviet Russia The Second All-Russian Congress of Soviets becomes the supreme governing body Start of the Russian Civil War

Belligerents

Bolshevik Party

Red Guards

Russian Provisional Government

Commanders and leaders

Strength

10,000 red sailors, 20,000–30,000 red guard soldiers

500–1,000 volunteer soldiers, 1,000 soldiers of women's battalion

Casualties and losses

Few wounded red guard soldiers

All imprisoned or deserted

The October Revolution (Russian: Октя́брьская револю́ция, tr. Oktyabr'skaya revolyutsiya; IPA: [ɐkˈtʲabrʲskəjə rʲɪvɐˈlʲutsɨjə]), officially known in Soviet literature as the Great October Socialist Revolution (Вели́кая Октя́брьская социалисти́ческая револю́ция, Velikaya Oktyabr'skaya sotsialističeskaya revolyutsiya), and commonly referred to as Red October, the October Uprising or the Bolshevik Revolution, was a revolution in Russia led by the Bolsheviks which was instrumental in the larger Russian Revolution of 1917. It took place with an armed insurrection in Petrograd on the 25th of October (7 November, New Style) 1917.

It followed and capitalized on the February Revolution of the same year, which overthrew the and resulted in a provisional government after a transfer of power proclaimed by Grand Duke Michael, brother of Tsar Nicolas II, who declined to take power after the Tsar stepped down. During this time, urban workers began to organize into councils (Russian: Soviet) wherein revolutionaries criticized the provisional government and its actions. After the Congress of Soviets, now the governing body, had its second session, it elected members of the Bolsheviks and other leftist groups such as the Left Socialist Revolutionaries to important positions within the new state of affairs. This immediately initiated the establishment of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, the world's first self-proclaimed socialist state.

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