Tag: Provisional Government

Podcast

7th November 1917: Bolshevik Red Guards take control of the Winter Palace in St Petersburg

7th November 2021
Tagged as: Lenin, Provisional Government, Red Guards, Revolution, Russia, Russian Revolution, St Petersburg, Trotsky

The ‘storming of the Winter Palace’ presents the takeover of the Winter Palace as a huge battle. However, this popular image is a fabrication.

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16th April 1917: Lenin arrives back in Russia in the sealed train after a decade in exile

16th April 2020
Tagged as: Bolshevik, Communism, Communist, Exile, Finland, First World War, Germany, Lenin, Nicholas II, Politics, Provisional Government, Revolution, Russian Revolution, Saint Petersburg, Switzerland

Vladimir Lenin arrived in Russia after a decade of self-imposed exile.