Vladimir Lenin arrived in Russia after a decade of self-imposed exile.
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Trotsky had been a key figure in the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917.
The assassination of Lenin was attempted by Fanya Kaplan, a member of the anti-Bolshevik faction of the Socialist Revolutionary Party.
The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party split into the Bolshevik and Menshevik factions.
The ‘storming of the Winter Palace’ presents the takeover of the Winter Palace as a huge battle. However, this popular image is a fabrication.
On the 7th November 1917, Red Guards entered the Winter Palace in St Petersburg in a defining event of the Bolshevik Revolution.
On the 20th December 1917, the Russian Bolshevik secret police known as the Cheka was established.
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11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
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9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
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