LENIN’S BLOODY REVOLUTION

Years of civil unrest came to a head in October 1917, as Lenin rode a revolutionary wave into Saint Petersburg and turned society upside down

DEFINING MOMENT RUSSIAN REVOLUTION OF 1917, 23 OCTOBER 1917 Following years of build-up of political and social factors, and amidst the First World War, the Bolsheviks led by Lenin take Saint Petersburg. Guns roared, thousands of voices yelled from the streets in defiance, and on 23 October 1917, the massed supporters of Vladimir Lenin laid siege to Saint Petersburg’s Winter Palace, the site of an ineffectual government, and the capstone event of a socialist revolution. For Lenin and his troops it was both a political and an ideological victory: the triumphant end to years of secretive theorising and plotting, many of them spent by Lenin in exile, before he returned to Russia to “liberate” his people. If the celebrations were short lived, the inversion of society to replace an autocracy…

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