October+Revolution+1917+Chronology

1.3.1917 Petrograd Soviet issues “Order No. 1”

//The military orders of the duma are to be obeyed only in such instances when they do not contradict the orders and decrees of the Soviet.//

2.3.1917 Provisional Government formed from the “Provisional Committee”

//Nicholas II signs his abdication decree without opposition//

4.3.1917 Proclamation of Nicholas II’s abdication

12.3.1917 Stalin & Kamenev return to Petrograd

3.4.1917 Lenin returns to Petrograd

4.4.1917 Lenin issues his April Theses

//"Peace, Bread, Land"//

3 – 6.7.1917 Failure of July Days Bolshevik Uprising;

//Lenin flees to Finland; Bolsheviks branded as traitors in the pay of Germans//

8.7.1917 Alexander Kerensky appointed Prime Minister

Aug – Sep 1917: The Kornilov Affair; an attempted coup against the government

25.9.1917 Bolsheviks gain majority in the Petrograd Soviet

9.10.1917 Petrograd Soviet sets up Military Revolutionary Committee to defend Petrograd.

//Trotsky gains a position on the troika that ran the MRC and control of the Red Guards//

23.10.1917 Kerensky moves to crack down on the Bolsheviks

Lenin orders the uprising against Kerensky’s government

25.10.1917 Bolshevik seizure of the Winter Palace

//Only six deaths in the whole episode; no contemporary films of October 1917; there was no storming of the gates as the palace was// //largely undefended except for the presence of some women soldiers and army cadets.//