Revolutionary Russia 1917

18th Feb 1917 - Full scale strike occurs at Putilov Steel Workers

23rd Feb 1917 - International Women's Day - thousands of women join the strikers

25th Feb 1917 - Petrograd paralysed by general strike

26th Feb 1917 - all but a few thousand men deserted  

2nd March 1917 - Nicholas II abdicates and Provisional Government takes over

4th March 1917 - February Revolution ends 

April 1917 - Lenin and other Bolsheviks return to Petrograd

By Summer 1917 - clear that the government is breaking down

3rd - 6th July 1917 - July Days 

8th July 1917 - Kerensky becomes Prime Minister - arrests Bolshevik leaders, Lenin forced to flee to Finland

7th October 1917 - Lenin slips back into Petrograd

23rd October 1917 - Bolshevik newspapers closed by governmemnt

27th October 1917 - Lenin declares that the Bolsheviks have full power

25th - 27th October 1917 - Petrograd falls under Bolshevik control - very little fighting

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March 1917 - Stalin returns to Petrograd after exile in Siberia since 1914

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