On 17 July, over 500, 000 people participated in a peaceful demonstration in Petrograd, the so-called July Days.

They participated in the Russian Civil War, cooperating with the ships and the army during the combats at Petrograd, on the Baltic Sea, the Black Sea, the Volga, the Kama River, Northern Dvina and on the Lake Onega.

A subdivision of 2nd company ( 137 soldiers ) participated in the defense of the Winter Palace during the Bolshevik Revolution on October 25, 1917, having been called to the palace square for a review before being sent to the front, but when they arrived the commander of the Petrograd Military District ordered the women soldiers to defend the Provisional Government.

By January 6, 1918 the VTsIK, supported by the Bolsheviks, ratified the dissolution of the Russian Constituent Assembly, which intended to establish the non-Bolshevik Russian Democratic Federative Republic as the permanent form of government established at its Petrograd session held January 5 and January 6, 1918.

In September and October 1917, there were strikes by the Moscow and Petrograd workers, the miners of the Donbas, the metalworkers of the Urals, the oil workers of Baku, the textile workers of the Central Industrial Region, and the railroad workers on 44 different railway lines.

On 5 – 6 July attacks were made on the editorial offices and printing presses of Pravda and on the Palace of Kshesinskaia, where the Central Committee and the Petrograd Committee of the Bolsheviks were located.

However, after the Bolshevik's coup in Petrograd, the politburo was dissolved and the Central Committee became the governing body of Russia .< ref > Politburo.

In July 1915 a Central War Industries Committee, established under the chairmanship of a prominent Octobrist Guchkov, included ten workers ' representatives-in which the Petrograd Mensheviks agreed to join despite the objections of their leaders abroad.

Although Zinoviev and Kamenev briefly had the support of a Central Committee majority and negotiations were started, a quick collapse of the anti-Bolshevik forces outside Petrograd allowed Lenin and Trotsky to convince the Central Committee to abandon the negotiating process.

Although Zinoviev and Kamenev briefly had the support of a Central Committee majority and negotiations were started, a quick collapse of the anti-Bolshevik forces outside Petrograd allowed Lenin and Trotsky to convince the Central Committee to abandon the negotiating process.

By 1897 ( year of the Russian Empire Census ) the number of Ingrian Finns had grown to 130, 413, by 1917 it had exceeded 140, 000 ( 45, 000 in Northern Ingria, 52, 000 in Central ( Eastern ) Ingria and 30, 000 in Western Ingria, the rest in Petrograd ).

After the 1917 February Revolution he returned to Petrograd from exile and was re-elected to the Central Committee.

In August 1917 it took the title News of the Central Executive Committee of the Petrograd Soviet of Workers ' and Soldiers ' Deputies.

By 1897 the number of Ingrian Finns had grown to 130, 413, by 1917 it had exceeded 140, 000 ( 45, 000 in Northern Ingria, 52, 000 in Central ( Eastern ) Ingria and 30, 000 in Western Ingria, the rest in Petrograd ).

At the Congress, Joffe was elected a candidate ( non-voting ) member of the Central Committee, but two days later, on August 5, the Central Committee, some of whose members were in prison, in hiding or lived far from Petrograd and couldn't attend its meetings, made Joffe a member of its permanent (" narrow ") bureau.

He remained in Petrograd when the Soviet government moved to Moscow later in March and worked as a member of the Petrograd Bureau of the Central Committee until he was appointed Soviet representative to Germany in April.

In Kronstadt, the Bolsheviks formed a ' Central Collective of the Kronstadt Military Organization ' which had close connections with the Petrograd Committee of the Party.

The practical work of the Bolshevik Party at that time was directed by the Bureau of the Central Committee of the Party which had its quarters in Petrograd and was headed by Vyacheslav Molotov.

Hundreds of thousands of men and women marched to the headquarters of the Petrograd Soviet and the All-Russian Central Executive Committee of Soviets, where they demanded that the Soviets take

He kept in touch with Petrograd through Bolsheviks assigned by the Central Committee who visited him at Razliv.

The Central Committee recognizes that the international position of the Russian revolution ( the revolt in the German navy which is an extreme manifestation of the growth throughout Europe of the world Socialist revolution ; the threat of conclusion of peace by the imperialists with the object of strangling the revolution in Russia ) as well as its military position ( the indubitable decision of the Russian bourgeoisie and Kerensky and Co. to surrender Petrograd to the Germans ), and the fact that the proletarian party has gained a majority in the Soviets – all this, taken in conjunction with the peasant revolt and the swing of popular confidence towards our Party ( the elections in Moscow ), and, finally, the obvious preparations being made for a second Kornilov affair ( the withdrawal of troops from Petrograd, the dispatch of Cossacks to Petrograd, the surrounding of Minsk by Cossacks, etc.

Considering therefore that an armed uprising is inevitable, and that the time for it is fully ripe, the Central Committee instructs all Party organizations to be guided accordingly, and to discuss and decide all practical questions ( the Congress of Soviets of the Northern Region, the withdrawal of troops from Petrograd, the action of our people in Moscow and Minsk, etc.

In the first month and half after the October Revolution ( 1917 ), the duty of " extinguishing the resistance of exploiters " was assigned to the Petrograd Military Revolutionary Committee ( or VRK ).

* 1917 – The Military Revolutionary Committee of the Petrograd Soviet, in charge of preparation and carrying out the Russian Revolution, holds its first meeting.

However, when the Bolshevik-led Military Revolutionary Committee headed by Adolph Joffe and the Petrograd Soviet, led by Trotsky, staged an uprising, Kamenev and Zinoviev went along.

In 1917, Trotsky was again elected chairman of the Petrograd soviet, but this time soon came to lead the Military Revolutionary Committee which had the allegiance of the Petrograd garrison, and carried through the October 1917 insurrection.

The response of the Duma, urged on by the liberal bloc, was to establish a Temporary Committee to restore law and order ; meanwhile, the socialist parties establish the Petrograd Soviet to represent workers and soldiers.

Nikolay Chkheidze, first Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Petrograd Soviet

In 1917, Shliapnikov became a member of the Executive Committee of the Petrograd Soviet of Workers ' and Soldiers ' Deputies.

The Provisional Government was formed in Petrograd by the Provisional Committee of the State Duma and was led first by Prince Georgy L ' vov and then by socialist Alexander Kerensky.

Within just a few years it bore several different names, such as " Petrograd Cinema Committee " and " SevZapKino " among various others.

Joffe served as the Chairman of the Petrograd Military Revolutionary Committee which overthrew the Russian Provisional Government on October 25 – 26, 1917.

Following the October Revolution, Finnish socialists planned to ask the Bolsheviks for acceptance of Finland's sovereignty in a manifesto on 10 November, but the uncertain situation in Petrograd stalled it.

After the October Revolution, Radek arrived in Petrograd and became Vice-Commisar for Foreign Affairs, taking part in the Brest-Litovsk treaty negotiations, as well as being responsible for the distribution of Bolshevik propaganda amongst German troops and prisoners of war.

After the Bolsheviks gained a majority in the Petrograd Soviet, Trotsky was elected Chairman on 8 October.

During the Russian civil war, in October 1919 White Army commander Nikolai Nikolayevich Yudenich advanced on Petrograd from the side of Detskoye Selo, apparently intending to capture the radio station to announce a victory over the Bolsheviks.

* 1917 – Traditionally understood date of the October Revolution, involving the capture of the Winter Palace, Petrograd, Russia.

It took place with an armed insurrection in Petrograd traditionally dated to 25 October 1917 Old Style Julian Calendar ( O. S.

The October Revolution in Petrograd overthrew the Russian Provisional Government and gave the power to the local soviets dominated by Bolsheviks.

) – Great October Socialist Revolution: The workers of the Petrograd Soviet in Russia, led by the Bolshevik Party and leader Vladimir Lenin, storm the Winter Palace and successfully destroy the Kerensky Provisional Government, resulting in the first overthrow of capitalism in history.

The Russian revolution of 1917 was marked by two revolutions: the relatively spontaneous February 1917 revolution, and the 25 October 1917 seizure of power by the Bolsheviks, who had gained the leadership of the Petrograd soviet.

He spent his childhood in Riga, and later lived in Andreapol ´ ( a small timber town near Pskov, effectively owned by the family business ) and Petrograd, ( now Saint Petersburg ), witnessing both the February and October Revolutions of 1917.

Feeling increasingly oppressed by life under Bolshevik rule, the family left Petrograd, on 5 October 1920, for Riga, but encounters with anti-Semitism and difficulties with the Latvian authorities convinced them to leave, and they moved to Britain in early 1921 ( Mendel in January, Isaiah and Marie at the beginning of February ), when Berlin was eleven.

The conflict between the " diarchy " became obvious, and, ultimately, the regime and the dual power formed between the Petrograd Soviet and the Provisional Government instigated by the February Revolution was replaced in the October Revolution.

Right after the October Revolution in Petrograd Bolsheviks instigated the Kiev Bolshevik Uprising in support to the Revolution and to secure Kiev in their hands, but surprisingly it did not go as planned.

Yuri Mikhailovich Lotman (, ) ( 28 February 1922, Petrograd – 28 October 1993, Tartu ) was a prominent Soviet literary scholar, semiotician, and cultural historian.

Uritsky played a leading part in the Bolsheviks ' armed take-over in October and later was made head of the Petrograd Cheka.

Following the October Revolution ( which was centered in Saint Petersburg / Petrograd and Moscow, and thus had little effect on Baku ), Shaumyan was made Commissar Extraordinary for the Caucasus and Chairman of the Baku Council of People's Commissars.

Russian Marxists made them a medium for organizing against the state, and between the February and October Revolutions, the Petrograd Soviet was a powerful force.

Following the 1917 February Revolution in Russia and the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II he left Switzerland via the Sealed Train to Petrograd from where he would shortly lead the October Revolution in Russia.