On the night of October 25 (November 7, New Style Gregorian Calendar), 1917, the Bolshevik Military Revolutionary Committee led by Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky directed armed Red Guards, sailors of the Baltic Fleet, and garrison soldiers to storm the Winter Palace in Petrograd (Saint Petersburg). Overthrowing Alexander Kerensky's Provisional Government, the Second All-Russian Congress of Soviets proclaimed the creation of the Russian Soviet Republic, ending centuries of Tsarist autocracy and altering twentieth-century world politics.
On the night of October 25 (November 7, New Style Gregorian Calendar), 1917, the Bolshevik Military Revolutionary Committee led by Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky directed armed Red Guards, sailors of the Baltic Fleet, and garrison soldiers to storm the Winter Palace in Petrograd (Saint Petersburg). Overthrowing Alexander Kerensky's Provisional Government, the Second All-Russian Congress of Soviets proclaimed the creation of the Russian Soviet Republic, ending centuries of Tsarist autocracy and altering twentieth-century world politics.
