HIS242H1 Lecture Notes - Minority Treaties, Septemberprogramm, Spring Offensive
Document Summary
The end of the war (1918) and the paris peace. Left at the end of the summer of 1917, provisional gov t being attacked by the left and right, more people are choosing the radical option-lenin. Meanwhile, in the country side, the social revolution in the rural area had began at this point, where peasants had seize landholder states. Bolsheviks now hold the majority in the petrograd soviet: the bolshevik seizure of power, oct 25, 1917. Elections to the constituent assembly y lenin now think it is the time for the revolution. y lenin first in sept goes to the committee tried to convinced them that this is the time for revolution. After long hours of arguments, they agreed. y in the petrograd soviet, a military revolutionary committee was formed under trotsky, who was elected as the chairman of petrograd soviet. y lenin s private army, the red guards were armed.
