October/ November Revolution 1917
-The Kronstadt Mutiny
-20 000 Soldiers went from naval base to demand that the Soviets take power
-Kornilov affair the bolsheviks are seen as defenders of Petrograd
-Kornilov threatened to attack the city
-Bolsheviks (led by Trotsky )military side
-Lenin led the Petrograd uprising and it was bloodless
-Cruiser Aurora fired one blank shot at Winter palace
-Power now belonged to the Soviets
-Mensheviks and the centre-right believed the Bolsheviks had gained power illegally
-They walked out of the second Congress of soviets
-Decree on Land, allowed peasants to seize private land and redistribute it.
-Decree on peace, proposed a withdrawal from WWI (treaty of Brest- Litovsk)
-20 000 Soldiers went from naval base to demand that the Soviets take power
-Kornilov affair the bolsheviks are seen as defenders of Petrograd
-Kornilov threatened to attack the city
-Bolsheviks (led by Trotsky )military side
-Lenin led the Petrograd uprising and it was bloodless
-Cruiser Aurora fired one blank shot at Winter palace
-Power now belonged to the Soviets
-Mensheviks and the centre-right believed the Bolsheviks had gained power illegally
-They walked out of the second Congress of soviets
-Decree on Land, allowed peasants to seize private land and redistribute it.
-Decree on peace, proposed a withdrawal from WWI (treaty of Brest- Litovsk)
Summary: The naval base demanded that the soviets take power and in the end they did. Lenin led the Petrograd uprising resulting in the Soviets taking power. The soviets declared a decree on land and on peace.