The Bolshevik seizure of power 1917 Flashcards
On what day did the Tsar abdicate and PG form?
2nd March 1917
The Petrograd soviet quickly had how many members?
3000
Between February and July 1917 how many factories in Petrograd closed? How many jobs were lost because of this?
568
100,000 jobs lost
In the early months of 1917 Kerensky was regarded as what?
‘The first love of the revolution’
List the 2 slogans that came out of the April theses
‘Bread, Peace and Land’
‘All power to the soviets’
On the 4th of July how many Kronstadt sailors arrived in Petrograd?
20,000
When did the Bolsheviks gain overall control of the Petrograd soviet?
9th September
What was the date of the Bolshevik seizure of power?
24-25th October 1917
What did Maxim Gorky condemn the alcohol orientated anarchy in the days after the revolution as?
‘A pogrom of greed, hatred and violence’
What were the ‘burzhooi’ condemned as by the Bolsheviks?
Parasites and bloodsuckers
In the first constituent assembly the Bolsheviks won 175 seats against the Kadets’ ____
410
