Lex Anteinternet: The October Revolution Commences, October 25, 1917 (Old Style Russian Calendar)

Tuesday, November 7, 2017

The October Revolution Commences, October 25, 1917 (Old Style Russian Calendar)

The cruiser Aurora, which fired a signal shot during the October Revolution Petrograd action, to the extent there was any.

Yesterday I ran this item:

Lex Anteinternet: October 24, 1917. Lenin declares the Communists t...: Lenin and Trotsky sacrifice Russia to an alter of Marx while revolutionary soldiers and sailors look on in this Russian anti Bolshevik ca...

Today the revolution that Lenin argued should commence, did. The Petrograd Soviet had of course planned the matter and action commenced early on this day in Petrograd when Red Guard took key positions in the city. The city's garrison mostly joined the insurrection soon thereafter. Holdout units in the Winter Palace eventually gave up or returned to their barracks. The entire matter, taking a little over a day, was largely bloodless. Even the cruiser Aurora, whose sailors joined the uprising, only fired a single blank shot.

The achievement was momentous indeed, but not the dramatic street fight depicted in later Soviet propaganda.

Not that the impact wasn't very real. Kerensky proved unable to rally forces to his cause, the republican government collapsed, Russia went into civil war as it went out of World War One.

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