TUESDAY JUST GONE, 6TH NOVEMBER
On that day in 1917, Russian Bolshevik revolutionaries launched a nearly bloodless coup d’etat against their country’s ineffectual provisional government. The Bolsheviks and their allies occupied government buildings and other strategic locations in the Russian capital Petrograd (now St. Petersburg) and within two days formed a new government headed by Vladimir Lenin. Bolshevik Russia, later named the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), was the world’s first Marxist state.
On that day in 1917, Russian Bolshevik revolutionaries launched a nearly bloodless coup d’etat against their country’s ineffectual provisional government. The Bolsheviks and their allies occupied government buildings and other strategic locations in the Russian capital Petrograd (now St. Petersburg) and within two days formed a new government headed by Vladimir Lenin. Bolshevik Russia, later named the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), was the world’s first Marxist state.