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The '''Bolshevik Revolution''' was the second phase of the [[Russian Revolution]] in 1917. It was the first [[Marx]]ist [[communist]] revolution in history. The Bolshevik Revolution is also known as the ''October revolution'' (See [[Bolshevik Revolution#Trivia|Trivia]]).
 
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The October Revolution was organized by [[Leon Trotsky]], as Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin was still in political exile in Finland following an [[July Days|attempted coup]] four months earlier. The reason this coup succeeded was because the Provisional Government, which had ruled Russia since the February Revolution earlier in 1917, had become deeply unpopular due to its continuation of the [[Russia]]n war effort in the First World War and several public relations disasters. It was also crippled because the Russian military, which had in the time of the Tsars been famous for its loyalty to the state, no longer listened to their government due to their experiences of fighting in [[World War I]].
 
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The Bolsheviks first took over Petrograd (now [[St Petersburg]]) and [[Moscow]], with relatively little loss of life; less than 10 deaths occurred in the takeover of Petrograd. Afterwards a bitter civil war was fought between the Reds (the Bolsheviks), and the Whites, a coalition of former Tsarist supporters, liberals, and moderates, which decided control of Russia.
 
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==Trivia==
 
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*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.
 
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*''Bolshevik'', in Russian, means ''majority,'' while ''Menshevik'' means ''minority.''
 
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==References==
 
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*Corin, Chris; Fiehn, Terry (2002). ''Communist Russia under Lenin and Stalin''. ISBN 0-7195-7468-9
 
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*Sebag Montefiore, Simon (2004). ''Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar''. ISBN 0-75381-766-7
 
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