The October Revolution: The Bolsheviks Seize Power

The causes and events of the October Revolution of 1917. Lenin's return from exile and the April Theses; the problems facing the Provisional Government (the war, the land question, peasant unrest, national minorities and the economy); Bolshevik agitation and propaganda, the July Days, the leadership of Kerensky and the Kornilov Revolt; the formation of MILREVCOM and the Red Guard; and the Bolshevik seizure of power, including the fall of the Winter Palace and the formation of Sovnarkom.