On this day November 7th in 1917, the October Revolution began in Russia when the Bolsheviks initiated an armed insurrection in Petrograd, seizing the Winter Palace and dissolving the Provisional Government in a coup with minimal violence. The name “October Revolution” comes from the fact that the revolution began on October 25th in the dating convention of the time.
The October Revolution was the culmination of popular sentiment directed against the provisional government which was achieving little for the majority of people to change Russia from its Tsarist past. In particular, the unelected body continued to participate in the very unpopular First World War opting in July for participation in further military campaigns which provoked outrage amongst soldiers and workers alike.
After the February Revolution which established the Provisional Government, during the period of the Dual Power (February-October 1917), the Bolsheviks gradually gained in strength and influence especially in the soviets and in the army after July. The Bolshevik slogan ‘Peace, Bread and Land’ summarised their programme and was increasingly popular. They established their headquarters in the Smolny Institute. This was a former girls’ convent school which also housed the Petrograd Soviet. The Provisional Government now headed by Kerensky, was still officially in power and under pressure from the nobility and industrialists, Kerensky was persuaded to take decisive action against the Bolsheviks. Thus, on 22nd October he ordered the arrest of the Bolshevik Military Revolutionary Committee (MRC). The government was aware of the unstated purpose of the MRC, established on 12th October and led by Trotsky. The purpose of this committee, created by the Bolsheviks within the Petrograd soviet, was to prepare for armed insurrection against the government. The next day, 23rd October, the government attempted to close down the Bolshevik newspapers and cut off the telephones to the Smolny Institute. However, soldiers and Red Guards ultimately thwarted all Kerensky’s plans.
Following this, a long debate took place at a secret meeting of the Bolshevik Central Committee. At this meeting the main issue centred around Lenin’s proposal that the Bolsheviks should take action before the elections for the Constituent Assembly; in other words, the socialist revolution should proceed without delay. Zinoviev and Kamenev dissented, hence the importance of the MRC which had already deployed commissars to all garrison units. In essence this was both a measure of defence and, at the same time, a preparation for attack
Thus, orders were given for the Bolsheviks to occupy the railway stations, the telephone exchange and the State Bank. In the early morning of October 25th, armed workers started occupying key points of Petrograd, in conjunction with pro-Bolshevik sailors pulling into the city’s harbour. Power stations were seized and strategic bridges were held. These instances produced very little resistance and were not met with violence.
A blank shot from the Cruiser Aurora in the evening signalled the siege of the Winter Palace, which was to be the final offensive of the revolution. Crowds of Red Guards and insurgents surrounded the palace and secured entry, leading to the surrender of the remaining government officials in the early hours of the morning. Members of the Provisional Government that had not already fled the capital were imprisoned. Kerensky had managed to escape from the city.
Crowds of Red Guards and insurgents surrounded the palace and secured entry, leading to the surrender of the remaining government officials.
The revolution itself was brief, being almost entirely peaceful in its execution. Posters were distributed across the city declaring that “the Provisional Government is overthrown” and “Long live the Revolution of Workers, Soldiers and Peasants!” Lenin emerged from the revolution as one of its most notable strategists and a potential leader in the new era.
On 26th October 1917, the second All-Russian Congress of Soviets met and handed over power to the Soviet Council of People’s Commissars. Lenin was elected chairman and other appointments included Trotsky (Foreign Affairs). Two decrees were adopted at the first session: the Decree on Peace, which moved to start negotiations to withdraw from the war in order to bring about “a just and democratic peace,” and the Decree on Land, which moved to transfer land away from landowners and the church to peasant committees. ‘Peace, Bread and Land’ was thus transformed from a slogan into a living reality. In addition, the Council of People’s Commissars nationalised the banks and workers control of factory production was introduced. The army was demobilised and in December and the Soviet Government announced that it planned to seek an armistice with Germany. In December 1917, Trotsky led the Russian delegation at Brest-Litovsk to negotiate peace terms with representatives from Germany and Austria-Hungary.
Thus it was that the full Bolshevik programme, as outlined in Lenin’s ‘April Theses’ was implemented within three months of the successful socialist revolution.
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I am becoming Gordon Ramsay cause holy fucking hell this kitchen is getting sloppy as fuck.
Yesterday there were 2 things on the prep list that were done Tuesday but not erased and 4 things that should have been there but weren’t that we found out about during service, a container of caramelized onions had a hole in the bottom and the leakage was on top of enough other lids on that shelf to know it got moved around quite a bit while leaking, an empty ricotta bucket with a spoon in it put back in the fridge instead of the dish pit, veggies that were from a week ago when less than a week ago I was told we were out and had to cut more, after getting a hole in a pizza someone put the remake on the charred and kinda spiky ashes of the one with the hole right after I said not to put it there, which the smoldering pile of pineapple and cheese should have made fucking obvious and it taking too long to explain to another guy what a Caesar salad with the Romain replaced with Kale meant and that it didn’t need the dressing of the kale salad and that he’d need to get a new mixing bowl and that it is dine in cause that’s the only time you need a mixing bowl for the salad and fuck it go do something else I could have made 5 of them in the time this is taking.
Sous chef the other day when making a prototype for a new menu pasta spilled fucking pigs blood all over the cap for our oil jug as well as elsewhere and it sat there for a couple hours until I walked by and noticed.
I’m they/them here and will go with a he/him at work just cause it’s easier and I don’t care, but holy fuck am I she/her when it comes to organizing and I miss having a woman in the kitchen both cause she ruled but also cause dudes are so fucking bad at being clean and organized, I am making a sweeping generalization here but it’s one I’ve found overwhelmingly true. Most dude cooks are messy as fuck and are mentally incapable of organizing a fridge
Today I found out the >$100 Sony headphones I traded a Bostitch nail gun for (I found it, I swear to God) that I thought had been destroyed in the rain still, in fact, work perfectly.
wait people actually hate Paige in the Americans? She’s a good, smart kid dealing with an impossible situation. That’s mad silly. Is it a misogyny? (On that subject Skyler white genuinely sucked and was a boringly written character don’t @ me)
Trump voters storming the white house when he actually implements tariffs and treats get more expensive.
It’s better to live than to be dead,
It’s the living man who has much.
I saw fire burn a rich man’s barn,
And he was dead outside the door.
The lame man rides,
The handless drives a herd,
The deaf man fights and wins;
To be blind is better than to be burned:
A corpse is of use to none.
once there were democrats in the streams in the mountains
Car city this, bikes that, how about we design a skateable city. Tony Hawk Pro Skater inspired urban planning
how fucking hard is it to fall in love with someone who loves u back and ur on the same page about deal breakers (kids vs not, relationship structure, etc) and both in the right headspace for love aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah this shit so ass
Should we change tagline mr trump … you hired
lmao gotta stop posting here about when i plan to kick solo drinking, feel like that always curses shit cuz ive drank every night this week. ive been good about quantity control tho, havent gone beyond the 2.5-3.5 standard beers range in that time which i’ll call a small W.
pathetic
ngl i think single life makes this a lot harder cuz if i came home to someone i loved and who loved me and they said “hey want to hold each other instead of drinking” it would genuinely squash the urge and replace it with something much better
time of monsters
time of Monster (energy)(i.e. soylent needy (caffeinated) drinky)
I am realizing I have a bad seal on 3m 9205 n95s. They leak on the corners of my nose between the top of my cheeks. I’m unsure if its just because I have a big nose, but regardless, does anyone know some good alternatives?
