How did the Bolsheviks seize power in November 1917?
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- How did the Bolsheviks seize power in 1917?
- lots of publicising
- they handed out leaflets in Petrograd
- published articles in the newspapers
- this made Kerensky panic and leave - secretly.
- the Red Guard took over key buildings in Petrograd
- bridges
- telegram office
- train stations
- nobody took much notice!
- they had kept their weapons from the Kornilov Revolt of September 1917
- they stormed the Winter Palace on 7th November
- met with little opposition
- Women's Battalion
- Cossack troops
- cadets
- they all surrendered and the Provisional Government handed power to the Bolsheviks
- Cossack troops
- Women's Battalion
- they all surrendered and the Provisional Government handed power to the Bolsheviks
- not as heroic as it sounds
- met with little opposition
- lots of publicising
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