Bolsheviks Seize Winter Palace: Russia's Revolution Begins
Bolshevik Red Guards seized the Winter Palace on October 25, 1917, triggering a power struggle that birthed the Soviet Union by 1922. When the Constituent Assembly rejected their decrees on peace and land in January 1918, the Bolsheviks dissolved the body to cement one-party rule. This decisive move ended any hope of a multi-party democracy in Russia and launched five years of brutal civil war.
November 7, 1917
109 years ago
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