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1917: Petrograd Soviet
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On March 8, 1917, there were waves of strikes. Hungry strikers thronged the streets in Petrograd. They demanded bread. The Czar ordered his troops to suppress the strikers. When the Petrograd troops turned to the side of these hungry strikers on March 10, it meant that the army which had been used to preserve the autocratic monarchy would not protect the Czar. On March 12, the Czar ordered the Fourth Duma to suspend its sessions.
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During the summer of 1917 Lenin made several attempts to invoke another revolution the likes of which had taken place in February, with the aim of overthrowing the Provisional Government. When the Machine Gun Regiment refused to leave Petrograd (as St. Petersburg was then known) for the frontline Lenin sought to manoeuvre them instead into making a putsch. However Kerensky, arguably the most important figure of the time - a member of both the Provisional Government and Petrograd Soviet - adeptly thwarted the coup. Experienced troops arrived in the city to quell any dissidents and the Bolsheviks were accused of being in collusion with the Germans. Many were arrested whilst Lenin escaped to Finland.
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Lenin's speech on October 26 (November 8), 1917 at the Second All-Russia Congress of Soviets is portrayed in the painting by V.Serov. The first decrees of the Soviet Government adopted by the Congress-the Decree on Peace and the Decree on Land, are on display.
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Written by Philip E. Mosley, this is a long and detailed lecture on the Russian Revolution of 1917, and the events that followed. It ends with a brief examination of the Civil War of 1918 – 1920, and the creation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in 1922.
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