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The '''October Revolution''', led by [[Bolshevik]] leader [[Vladimir Lenin]], took place in [[Russia]] in 1917. Lenin returned from exile when the [[czar|tsarist]] (czarist) rule ended and led the Bolsheviks into power.
[[Image:Kustodiyev bolshevik.jpg|right|thumb|''Bolshevik'' by Boris Kustodiyev, 1920.|300px]]
The '''October Revolution''' or '''Bolshevik Revolution''', led by [[Bolshevik]] leader [[Vladimir Lenin]], took place in [[Russia]] in 1917. Lenin returned from exile when the [[czar|tsarist]] (czarist) rule ended and led the Bolsheviks into power.
The Congress of Soviets, in 1917, was made up of representatives of local soviets which, in turn, were elected primarily by workers and peasants in the various local districts. In the Congress of Soviets which met at the beginning of November, 1917, the Bolshevik party had a majority. This Congress then declared itself to be "the government": that is to say, it claimed sovereignty and declared that sovereignty was no longer possessed by the [[Kerensky government]] which was based upon the remnants of the old Russian Duma and had been in power since the [[February Revolution]]. The Soviet Congress then proceeded to enact the chief initial measures of the new regime and to elect an executive - the Council of Commissars. <ref>James Burnham, ''The Managerial Revolution'', Indiana University Press, Bloomingham 1966. </ref>
The Congress of Soviets, in 1917, was made up of representatives of local soviets which, in turn, were elected primarily by workers and peasants in the various local districts. In the Congress of Soviets which met at the beginning of November, 1917, the Bolshevik party had a majority. This Congress then declared itself to be "the government": that is to say, it claimed sovereignty and declared that sovereignty was no longer possessed by the [[Kerensky government]] which was based upon the remnants of the old Russian Duma and had been in power since the [[February Revolution]]. The Soviet Congress then proceeded to enact the chief initial measures of the new regime and to elect an executive - the Council of Commissars. <ref>James Burnham, ''The Managerial Revolution'', Indiana University Press, Bloomingham 1966. </ref>
Lenin headed the Soviet state under a system of [[Marxism-Leninism]] until his death in 1924. After his death, a power struggle between [[Leon Trotsky]] and [[Joseph Stalin]] ostracized Trotsky and brought Stalin to power. Stalin would eventually have Trotsky assassinated and betray all of the revolution's intentions.
Lenin headed the Soviet state under a system of [[Marxism-Leninism]] until his death in 1924. After his death, a power struggle between [[Leon Trotsky]] and [[Joseph Stalin]] ostracized Trotsky and brought Stalin to power. Stalin would eventually have Trotsky assassinated and betray all of the revolution's intentions.
==Trivia==
*The confusion about the naming of the October or November Revolution is because at the time the Russians still used the Julian calendar, which meant that it was around a month behind the more modern states who used the Gregorian calendar, so for the other states the revolution occurred in November, but to the Russians it occurred in October.
*''Bolshevik'', in Russian, means ''majority,'' while ''Menshevik'' means ''minority.''
==References==
==References==
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*Corin, Chris; Fiehn, Terry (2002). ''Communist Russia under Lenin and Stalin''. ISBN 0-7195-7468-9
*Sebag Montefiore, Simon (2004). ''Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar''. ISBN 0-75381-766-7
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