InNo+Russsia+in+war+and+Revolution+Section+2+liam2013+10.23.10

 Awesomeness :D                <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 27.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">** Russia at war ** <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -.5in; tab-stops: 11.0pt .5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -.5in;"> Early defeats <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.0in; tab-stops: 47.0pt 1.0in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.0in;"> August 1914 two Russian armies attacked one German army <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.0in; tab-stops: 47.0pt 1.0in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.0in;"> The Russians did not have great supplies or tactics <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.0in; tab-stops: 47.0pt 1.0in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.0in;"> There were 1 mil soldiers some were trained some were not. <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.0in; tab-stops: 47.0pt 1.0in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.0in;"> battles of tannenberg and Masurian Lakes <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.0in; tab-stops: 47.0pt 1.0in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.0in;"> Russian armies were **DESTROYED!** <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -.5in; tab-stops: 11.0pt .5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -.5in;"> collapse of econ <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.0in; tab-stops: 47.0pt 1.0in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.0in;"> In 1915 Russ econ started to collapse <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.5in; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;"> 15.5 million people taken to fight <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.5in; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;"> factories were closed because there were not any workers available. <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.5in; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;"> They needed railways to supply armies and towns ppl <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.5in; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;"> They didn’t have enough trains <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.5in; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;"> Lots of food and supplied rotted away at train stations <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -.5in; tab-stops: 11.0pt .5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -.5in;">** Dark forces destroying the throne ** <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.0in; tab-stops: 47.0pt 1.0in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.0in;"> August 1915 Nick took command of the armies <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.5in; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;"> Left Alexandra in control <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.5in; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;"> BUT she was being influenced by Rasputain <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.5in; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;"> She then got rid of people she disliked. <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.5in; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;"> <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.5in; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;"> Because everyone was leaving and being fired the government work stopped <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.5in; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;"> Food and ammunition were hard to acquire <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.5in; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;"> Rasputin and she were German agents <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.5in; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;"> <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.5in; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;"> One noble spoke out in Duma that **"dark forces were destroying the throne"** <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.5in; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;">** December 1916 three nobles of Tsar killed Rasputin ** <span style="line-height: 27.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">** The revolution of March 1917 ** <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -.5in; tab-stops: 11.0pt .5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -.5in;"> March 1917 in Petrograd there was a revolution <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level2 lfo2; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.0in; tab-stops: 47.0pt 1.0in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.0in;"> Wednesday 7 March <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level3 lfo2; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.5in; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;"> 20,000 steel workers were locked out of factories <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level3 lfo2; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.5in; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;">** Thursday 8 March ** <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level3 lfo2; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.5in; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;"> 50 factories closed down, 90,000 workers on strike <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level3 lfo2; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.5in; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;"> International Women’s Day – <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level3 lfo2; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.5in; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;"> women outside demonstrating <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level3 lfo2; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.5in; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;">** Friday 9 March ** <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level3 lfo2; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.5in; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;"> 200,000 workers on strike <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level3 lfo2; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.5in; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;">** Saturday 10 march ** <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level3 lfo2; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.5in; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;"> 250,000 workers on strike <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level3 lfo2; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.5in; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;"> no public transport/newspapers <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level3 lfo2; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.5in; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;"> still no more food <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level3 lfo2; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.5in; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;"> Cossacks refused to attack strikers when ordered <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level3 lfo2; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.5in; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;">** Sunday 11 March ** <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level3 lfo2; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.5in; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;"> President of Duma, Michael Rodzianko sent telgram to Nick <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level3 lfo2; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.5in; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;"> Nick told Duma to stop meeting <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level3 lfo2; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.5in; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;">** Monday 12 March ** <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level3 lfo2; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.5in; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;"> 6 o’clock mutiny began <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level3 lfo2; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.5in; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;"> <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level3 lfo2; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.5in; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;"> <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level3 lfo2; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.5in; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;"> <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level3 lfo2; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.5in; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;"> <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level3 lfo2; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.5in; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;"> <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level3 lfo2; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.5in; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;"> <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 2.0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level4 lfo2; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -2.0in; tab-stops: 119.0pt 2.0in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -2.0in;"> Sergeant shot commanding officer dead <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 2.0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level4 lfo2; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -2.0in; tab-stops: 119.0pt 2.0in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -2.0in;"> Soldiers left barracks and march to center of Petrograd <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level3 lfo2; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.5in; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;"> Duma held meeting even though Nick said no <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level3 lfo2; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.5in; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;"> They set up Provisional Committee (12 men) to take over the government <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level3 lfo2; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.5in; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;"> Revolutionaries set up a Soviet, in Petrograd <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 2.0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level4 lfo2; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -2.0in; tab-stops: 119.0pt 2.0in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -2.0in;"> Wanted to take over government and organize food and supplies <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level3 lfo2; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.5in; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;">** Tuesday 13 March ** <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level3 lfo2; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.5in; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;"> Nick sent telegran to Duma: <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level3 lfo2; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.5in; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;"> He would share power with Duma <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level3 lfo2; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.5in; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;"> <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level3 lfo2; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.5in; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;"> <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level3 lfo2; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.5in; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;"> Reply was that it was too late <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level3 lfo2; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.5in; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;"> Wednesday 14 March <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level3 lfo2; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.5in; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;"> Generals sent telegram to Nick saying they didn’t support him <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level3 lfo2; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.5in; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;"> He tried to return and take control but his train was stopped by revolutionaries <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level3 lfo2; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.5in; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;">** Thursday 15 March ** <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level3 lfo2; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.5in; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;"> Nick 250 km away agreed to give his throne to Alexis <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level3 lfo2; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.5in; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;"> Alexis was too ill <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level3 lfo2; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.5in; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;"> crowned his brother eric <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level3 lfo2; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.5in; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;"> He thought he would be unpopular like Nick so he was abdicated in a day <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level3 lfo2; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.5in; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;"> Russia was a republic <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level3 lfo2; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.5in; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;"> Duma provisional committee or Petrograd Soviet had to govern. <span style="line-height: 27.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> The Provisional Government <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo3; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -.5in; tab-stops: 11.0pt .5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -.5in;">** Two New governments ** <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l2 level2 lfo3; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.0in; tab-stops: 47.0pt 1.0in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.0in;"> The committee set up by Duma was called the **Provisional Government** <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l2 level3 lfo3; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.5in; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;"> The would govern until election and they would step down <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l2 level2 lfo3; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.0in; tab-stops: 47.0pt 1.0in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.0in;">** PLUS Petrograd Soviet ** <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l2 level3 lfo3; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.5in; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;"> The soviets in other towns listened to the Petrograd Soviet <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l2 level3 lfo3; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.5in; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;"> Their first issue was Order No. 1 <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 2.0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l2 level4 lfo3; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -2.0in; tab-stops: 119.0pt 2.0in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -2.0in;"> <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo3; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -.5in; tab-stops: 11.0pt .5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -.5in;"> Lenin and the April Theses <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l2 level2 lfo3; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.0in; tab-stops: 47.0pt 1.0in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.0in;"> Lenin was the leader of the Bolsheviks and was Switzerland <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l2 level2 lfo3; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.0in; tab-stops: 47.0pt 1.0in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.0in;"> He wanted a second revolution <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l2 level2 lfo3; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.0in; tab-stops: 47.0pt 1.0in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.0in;"> He was 2000km away from Petrograd but he was helped by Germans to get home <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l2 level3 lfo3; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.5in; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;"> They knew he wanted trouble with provisional government <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l2 level3 lfo3; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.5in; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;"> Gave him money and a special train <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l2 level2 lfo3; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.0in; tab-stops: 47.0pt 1.0in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.0in;"> He got to Petrograd on 16 April 1917 <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l2 level2 lfo3; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.0in; tab-stops: 47.0pt 1.0in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.0in;"> He made a speech to Bolsheviks after he got there <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l2 level3 lfo3; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.5in; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;"> End war with Germany <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l2 level3 lfo3; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.5in; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;"> All land given to peasants <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l2 level3 lfo3; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.5in; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;"> Banks nationalized <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l2 level3 lfo3; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.5in; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;"> Their name changed to communists <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l2 level3 lfo3; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.5in; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;"> No support given to the Provisional Government <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l2 level3 lfo3; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.5in; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;"> Wanted to form a new government <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 2.0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l2 level4 lfo3; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -2.0in; tab-stops: 119.0pt 2.0in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -2.0in;"> This became known as the April Theses <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l2 level2 lfo3; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.0in; tab-stops: 47.0pt 1.0in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.0in;"> This was surprising to Bolsheviks <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l2 level2 lfo3; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.0in; tab-stops: 47.0pt 1.0in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.0in;"> He wanted new revolution but many people didn’t think the time was right <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l2 level2 lfo3; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.0in; tab-stops: 47.0pt 1.0in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.0in;"> Jun 1917 Russian armies attacked Austria <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l2 level3 lfo3; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.5in; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;"> Attack failed and the retreated <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l2 level3 lfo3; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.5in; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;"> Lots of soldiers deserted and many went to Petrograd to join Bolsheviks <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l2 level3 lfo3; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.5in; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;"> 100,000+ soldiers in the streets shouted ‘all power to soviets!’ <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l2 level3 lfo3; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.5in; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;"> They wanted Bolsheviks to take power <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l2 level2 lfo3; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.0in; tab-stops: 47.0pt 1.0in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.0in;"> July Days <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l2 level3 lfo3; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.5in; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;"> After three days of Alexander Kerensky, Minister of War sent troops to Petrograd and killed and wounded 400 of the mob <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l2 level3 lfo3; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.5in; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;"> Kerensky said Germans paid Bolsheviks to cause trouble <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l2 level3 lfo3; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.5in; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;"> Lenin ran away to Finland and avoided arrest, other Bolshevik officials were arrested <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo3; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -.5in; tab-stops: 11.0pt .5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -.5in;"> The Kornilov Revolt <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l2 level2 lfo3; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.0in; tab-stops: 47.0pt 1.0in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.0in;"> Alexander Kerensky is Prime minister of provisional government <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l2 level2 lfo3; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.0in; tab-stops: 47.0pt 1.0in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.0in;"> He then faced a challenge with the commander in chief of army Kornilov <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l2 level3 lfo3; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.5in; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;"> He thought that he should be in charge <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l2 level3 lfo3; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.5in; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;"> He wanted to get rid of Petrograd Soviet <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l2 level3 lfo3; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.5in; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;"> Arrest revolutionaries <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l2 level3 lfo3; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.5in; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;"> Wanted to keep fighting Germany <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l2 level2 lfo3; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.0in; tab-stops: 47.0pt 1.0in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.0in;"> Kornilov had the best army in Russia wanted to get rid of Provisional Government <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l2 level2 lfo3; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.0in; tab-stops: 47.0pt 1.0in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.0in;"> Kerensky didn’t have many troops with him <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l2 level2 lfo3; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.0in; tab-stops: 47.0pt 1.0in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.0in;"> Kerensky allowed Bolsheviks to set up a Read Guard and defense <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l2 level3 lfo3; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.5in; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;"> 25,000 bolsheviks armed with rifles and machine guns <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l2 level3 lfo3; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.5in; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;"> Kornilov’s troops didn’t want to fight with fellow army so they arrested Kornilov <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l2 level2 lfo3; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.0in; tab-stops: 47.0pt 1.0in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.0in;"> Bolsheviks became heroes because of this <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l2 level3 lfo3; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.5in; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;"> Saved provisional government <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l2 level3 lfo3; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.5in; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;"> Showed they were not German agents <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l2 level3 lfo3; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.5in; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;"> Became a effective fighting force <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l2 level3 lfo3; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.5in; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;"> Strengthened their position in elections for the Petrograd Soviet in Sept and same thing in Soviet Moscow <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l2 level2 lfo3; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.0in; tab-stops: 47.0pt 1.0in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.0in;"> They were much more powerful and they would be able to have a second revolution <span style="line-height: 27.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">** The Bolshevik Revolution of November 1918 ** <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo4; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -.5in; tab-stops: 11.0pt .5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -.5in;"> The state of Russia in September 1917 <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l3 level2 lfo4; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.0in; tab-stops: 47.0pt 1.0in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.0in;"> Peasants began to take control of land that they grew their food on <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l3 level2 lfo4; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.0in; tab-stops: 47.0pt 1.0in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.0in;"> They had been waiting for Provisional government to give them land <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l3 level2 lfo4; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.0in; tab-stops: 47.0pt 1.0in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.0in;"> More than 2000 farms farmers killed landlords and divided land among themselves <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l3 level2 lfo4; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.0in; tab-stops: 47.0pt 1.0in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.0in;"> Kerensky sent out soldiers to punish the peasants in the countryside <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l3 level3 lfo4; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.5in; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;"> They whipped peasants and burned their homes <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l3 level3 lfo4; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.5in; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;"> Kerensky couldn’t find enough loyal troops to do this <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l3 level3 lfo4; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.5in; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;"> The violence with the peasants went on <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l3 level2 lfo4; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.0in; tab-stops: 47.0pt 1.0in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.0in;"> This delayed the harvest and caused food shortage <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l3 level3 lfo4; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.5in; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;"> People now faced famine <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l3 level2 lfo4; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.0in; tab-stops: 47.0pt 1.0in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.0in;"> The discpline in the army broke down and soldiers disobeyed their officers <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l3 level3 lfo4; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.5in; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;"> Thousands of soldiers left the army each week <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l3 level3 lfo4; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.5in; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;"> They went back to their homes to make sure they got land <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l3 level2 lfo4; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.0in; tab-stops: 47.0pt 1.0in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.0in;"> The Bolsheviks encouraged soldiers to stop fighting <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l3 level3 lfo4; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.5in; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;"> There was drunken people and chaos everywhere <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo4; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -.5in; tab-stops: 11.0pt .5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -.5in;"> The November revolution <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l3 level2 lfo4; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.0in; tab-stops: 47.0pt 1.0in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.0in;"> October 1917 Lenin came from Finland <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l3 level3 lfo4; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.5in; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;"> He wanted a revolution immediately <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l3 level2 lfo4; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.0in; tab-stops: 47.0pt 1.0in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.0in;"> Bolsheviks wanted to stage an armed revolution against Prov Government <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l3 level3 lfo4; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.5in; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;"> Leon Trotsky, president of Petrograd Soviet set up HQ in Smolny Institute, an unused school <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l3 level2 lfo4; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.0in; tab-stops: 47.0pt 1.0in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.0in;"> He didn’t have to make plans secret, Prov Government couldn’t stop him <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l3 level3 lfo4; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.5in; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;"> Thea rmy supports the Bolsheviks <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l3 level3 lfo4; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.5in; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;"> The Peter and Paul fortress guards gave rifles to the Bolsheviks <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l3 level2 lfo4; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.0in; tab-stops: 47.0pt 1.0in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.0in;"> Night 6 November the Red Guard is all armed <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l3 level3 lfo4; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.5in; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;"> They took control of important Petrograd locations <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 2.0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l3 level4 lfo4; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -2.0in; tab-stops: 119.0pt 2.0in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -2.0in;"> 6 bridges in Neva <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 2.0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l3 level4 lfo4; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -2.0in; tab-stops: 119.0pt 2.0in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -2.0in;"> Government buildings <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 2.0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l3 level4 lfo4; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -2.0in; tab-stops: 119.0pt 2.0in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -2.0in;"> Power station <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 2.0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l3 level4 lfo4; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -2.0in; tab-stops: 119.0pt 2.0in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -2.0in;"> Railway stations <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l3 level2 lfo4; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.0in; tab-stops: 47.0pt 1.0in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.0in;"> Prov Government had HQ in Winter Palace and guarded by army cadet’s and women’s battalion army <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l3 level2 lfo4; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.0in; tab-stops: 47.0pt 1.0in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.0in;"> Evening 7 November <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l3 level3 lfo4; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.5in; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;"> A cruiser, Aurora, captured by Bolsheviks, fired blank shells at winter palace <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l3 level3 lfo4; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.5in; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;"> Peter and Paul fortresses open fired on Winter Palace <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l3 level3 lfo4; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.5in; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;"> The Read guards stormed the winter palace <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 2.0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l3 level4 lfo4; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -2.0in; tab-stops: 119.0pt 2.0in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -2.0in;"> Cadets and Women’s battalion gave up with no fight <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: 1.0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l3 level2 lfo4; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -1.0in; tab-stops: 47.0pt 1.0in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.0in;"> Bolsheviks controlled the capital of Russia They came to power in one day