Inspirational
Leader
Vladimir Ilych Ulyanov, known by his revolutionary nom de guerre, Lenin, inspired a small cadre
of Communist intellectuals to agitate amongst the workers and soldiers of
Petrograd, today's St. Petersburg. In this photo, his close associate Leon
Trotsky stands at the right of the podium.
Disaffected
Soldiers
sympathetic to the Bolshevik cause carry banners bearing Marxist slogans. Lenin
and his co-conspirators found a welcome audience among the Imperial troops. Sent
by the czar to fighting a losing war in the freezing winter, they were quick to
accept the message that they were being exploited.
Gunned Down
Government
troops open fire on a worker's protest in Petrograd in July of 1917. The
shootings only served to further anger the citizens of Petrograd.
Mass Appeal
A student
demonstration through the streets of the Petrograd attracts soldiers and
women.
Siege
Soldiers loyal to
the leftists take up positions outside the Winter Palace, the residence of the
czar and his family.
Trashed
Portraits of the
czar, his father and grandfather, are ripped from the walls in Petrograd.
Soldiers parade in front of the Winter Palace.
Troika
Lenin (center)
poses with two of his co-conspirators, Joseph Stalin (left) and Mikhail
Kalinin.
The Petrograd Soviet
In
the heady days leading up to October, the Bolsheviks were just one of many
groups agitating for the overthrow of the government. Several parties attended
this meeting of soldiers' deputies. The banner at the left reads, "Down with
Lenin and Co."
Propaganda
The
Bolsheviks pass out their newspaper in the days after the coup.
Party Organ
Lenin sits
at this desk with an edition of Pravda,
the Bolshevik Party's principle newspaper. The name translates as "Truth."
Voting
Lenin and his
cadre dared not cancel an election for a constituent assembly that had been
scheduled long before the coup. In the voting, the Bolsheviks garnered 24
percent, while their arch-rivals, the Social Revolutionaries, got much more
support, with 40 percent. The first and only meeting of the assembly was broken
up by sailors sympathetic to the Bolshevik cause.
Civil War
A "Red" Army
unit (i.e. one loyal to the Bolsheviks) marches through Kharkov. In order to
secure control over the entire country, Lenin and his supporters had to wage a
four-year war against the "Whites," a loose coaltion of all who opposed them.
Desperate
The Civil War
pushed the country into chaos. Food supplies evaporated, and citizens were
forced to roam the country by cart and train in search of food.
Wounded
Soldiers loyal
to the Bolsheviks load their wounded onto a train after battling sailors
garrisoned at a fort in Kronstadt, near Petrograd. The uprising of the sailors
against the newly formed government was the last rebellion against Bolshevik
rule and its suppression is regarded as the final battle of the Civil War.
Spreading the Word
With
the aid of a portrait of Lenin (hung from a roof, center left) a Bolshevik
supporter (the bearded man standing at center) explains the new order of things
to a group of peasants.
The New Boss
Lenin,
joined by his military commanders, marches through Red Square.
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