October Revolution

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1917

November

07
- Key eventOctober RevolutionOn 7 November 1917 the Bolsheviks seized Petrograd and overthrew the Provisional Government. The Winter Palace fell at night; the Soviet Congress took power.
08
- The Council of People's Commissars is formedOn 8 November 1917 the Congress of Soviets passed the decrees on peace and land and set up a Bolshevik government, the Sovnarkom, under Lenin.
12
- Battle of PulkovoOn 12 November 1917 Red Guards and sailors repelled Krasnov's Cossacks on the Pulkovo Heights. Kerensky's attempt to retake Petrograd collapsed.
14
- Kerensky escapesOn 14 November 1917 Kerensky, whom Krasnov's Cossacks were ready to hand to the Bolsheviks, fled the Gatchina palace disguised as a sailor and vanished.
15
- Bolsheviks take MoscowOn 15 November 1917, after a week of street fighting and the shelling of the Kremlin, the Moscow Committee of Public Safety gave in. Moscow fell to the soviets.
20
- Proclamation of the Ukrainian People's RepublicOn 20 November 1917 the Central Rada in Kiev issued the Third Universal. It proclaimed the Ukrainian People's Republic as part of a federal Russia.
21
- Bolsheviks propose an armisticeOn 21 November 1917 Lenin's government told the high command to offer the enemy an armistice, and the Allied embassies got Trotsky's note. Dukhonin refused.
25
- Elections to the Constituent AssemblyOn 25 November 1917 Russia began electing the Constituent Assembly. The SRs won; the Bolsheviks took about a quarter of the vote and both capitals.
27
- Russian envoys cross the German linesNear Dvinsk three envoys of Krylenko crossed the front to the Germans. On 27 November 1917 they returned with consent to armistice talks set for 2 December.
28
- Maapäev assumes power in EstoniaOn 28 November 1917 Estonia's provincial assembly, the Maapäev, declared itself supreme power until a constituent assembly met. The Bolsheviks dispersed it.

December

1918

January

February

March

June

07
- Czechoslovaks take OmskOn 7 June 1918 the Bolshevik soviet fled Omsk by steamer down the Irtysh. Russian anti-Bolsheviks took the city, and next day Czechoslovak trains arrived.

July

August

September

05
- Red TerrorOn 5 September 1918 the Council of People's Commissars adopted the resolution "On the Red Terror". The Cheka could shoot "class enemies" or hold them in camps.

December