1. WW1 decimates Russia with food shortages, fuel shortages rising prices, and yet more thousands of Rusian sons killed due to blundering generals and bad planning!
2. Lenin returns from Exile and challenges the provisional government of Kerenski.
3. Russinan troops are ordered to fire on demonstrators
The Bolshevik Party led the October Revolution of 1917. There was another revolution in 1917 called the February Revolution, the the October Revolution is commonly referred to as the Russian Revolution, because it resulted in the establishment of the Communist government and the Soviet Union.
The first revolution in Russia in 1917 occurred in February according to the Julian calendar which was in effect within Russia at that time. In the western world, which used the Gregorian calendar, it occurred in March.
Russia had lost many battles in the war. people were starving. Food shortages were unchecked.
There was no 1917 revolution of the USSR. The revolution was in Russia, which later joined with Ukraine, Belorussia and the Transcaucasus Federation to form the USSR. As to the Revolution in Russia in 1917, the first one, the February Revolution was not led by anyone. It broke out spontaneously in Petrograd and spread to other cities. As to the second one, the October Revolution, Vladimir Lenin led it.
The result of the February Revolution was the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II and the institution of the Provisional Government govern Russia until a Constitutional Assembly could be elected to write a new constitution. It did virtually nothing to give the people of Russia what they had demanded to start the revolution itself. It also enable Vladimir Lenin to return to Russia in April. He would eventually start the October Revolution that would overthrow the Provisional Government and allow the Bolsheviks to take over the country.
The political revolutions in Russia after 1914 were the February Revolution and the October Revolution both occurring in 1917.
Czars were no longer in Russia
The February Revolution occurred on February 22, 1917, according to the Julian calendar that Russia was using at the time. The Julian calendar was about 13 days behind the Gregorian Calendar which most of the rest of the world used. For the western world, the revolution occurred on March 8, 1817; however in Russia, it occurred on February 22, 1917, hence the name February Revolution. The following year, Russia changed over to the Gregorian calendar, but the February Revolution never lost that name even though the anniversary of the revolution was honored on March 8.
V.I. Lenin
tsar Nicholas II
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Russia's February revolution began.
Russia's February revolution began.
they were happy so it helped
The "Provisional Government" took control of Russia after the February Revolution. It was supposed to be temporary until a democratically elected Constituent Assembly could be elected and then create a constitutional form of government.
they were happy so it helped
The Bolshevik Party led the October Revolution of 1917. There was another revolution in 1917 called the February Revolution, the the October Revolution is commonly referred to as the Russian Revolution, because it resulted in the establishment of the Communist government and the Soviet Union.