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October 1917 Revolution

October 1917 Revolution. Kornilov Affair, September 1917. General Lavr G. Kornilov, 1870-1918 Prime Minister Aleksandr Kerensky Hughes apparatus Sept. 9: dismissed Kornilov Kornilov tried to march on Petrograd Stopped by soviet cooperation Increased Bolsheviks’ popularity

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October 1917 Revolution

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  1. October 1917 Revolution

  2. Kornilov Affair, September 1917 • General Lavr G. Kornilov, 1870-1918 • Prime Minister Aleksandr Kerensky • Hughes apparatus • Sept. 9: dismissed Kornilov • Kornilov tried to march on Petrograd • Stopped by soviet cooperation • Increased Bolsheviks’ popularity • PG (Kerensky) moved right. • Masses (“demokratiia”) moved left.

  3. October (1917) Revolution • Military-Revolutionary Committee • Second Congress of Soviets • Bolshevik majority • Kerensky cracked down • Sacked Min. of War Verkhovskii. • ordered 2/3 of garrison to front. • shut down Bolsheviks’ newspapers • Lenin convinced Bolsheviks to seize power. • Red Guards took key points of Petrograd.

  4. Red Guards, October 1917

  5. MilRevKom’s declaration, 25 October (7 November) 1917 “To the Citizens of Russia! The Provisional Government has been deposed. State power has passed into the hands of the organ of the Petrograd Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies - the Revolutionary Military Committee, which heads the Petrograd proletariat and the garrison. The cause for which the people have fought, namely, the immediate offer of a democratic peace, the abolition of landed proprietorship, workers' control over production, and the creation of a Soviet Government - this cause has been secured. Long live the revolution of workers, soldiers and peasants!”

  6. October (1917) Revolution • Proclaimed new government: Soviet of People’s Commissars (SovNarKom) • Decree on Land • Decree on Peace • Hold CA elections

  7. “All Power to the Soviets!”

  8. LEON TROTSKY, 1879-1940

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