Major milestones of Russian October Revolution through photos

In fact, the premise of the Russian October Revolution appeared since the beginning of 1917 when the February Bourgeois Democratic Revolution overthrew the tsarist autocracy. Following the revolution, there were two parallel administrations in Russia: the Bourgeois Provisional Government (dictatorship of the bourgeoisie), and the Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies which was led by Petrograd Soviet (dictatorship of the proletariat). (Photo: Opeterburge.ru)

However, the February Revolution did not live up to the set expectations. After taking control of the government, the Provisional Government did not settle the previously promised issues such as land, jobs and food, while resolutely pursuing the imperial war to the last. (Photo: kommersant.ru/namm-mdf.ru)

Russia fell into a very serious economic and political crisis and social contradictions became more and more acute. The struggle movements of workers, farmers, soldiers and ethnic minorities took place strongly on a large scale. The number of supporters of the Bolshevik Party led by V.I.Lenin was growing. (Photo: May protests in Petrograd/Source: The Museum of Leningrad History)

V.I.Lenin and the Bolshevik Party determined that the Revolution in Russia needed to move from a bourgeois democratic revolution to a socialist revolution. (Photo: Members of St. Petersburg League of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working class/Source: TASS)

In April 1917, V.I.Lenin returned home to directly lead the Russian Revolution. On April 16, 1917, V.I.Lenin arrived in Petrograd for his presentation of the April Thesis, a programmatic document that set out the path to victory for the socialist revolution. (Photo: Ogonek Magazine)

Provisional Government openly suppressed mass struggle movements and imprisoned Bolshevik Party members, so V.I.Lenin was forced to operate activities in secret. On October 7, 1917, V.I. Lenin left Finland and returned to Petrograd to directly lead the uprising when he realised that the conditions for a revolution revolutionary was ripe. (Photo: The locomotive that brought Lenin, disguised as a railway worker, from Finland back to Petrograd in 1917/Source: TASS)

While the Bolshevik Party’s organisations actively carried out the necessary works towards an armed uprising, the Provisional Government arrested members of the Military Revolutionary Committee as well as ransacked and shut down Bolshevik Party’s newspapers on October 24, 1917. The Prime Minister of the Provisional Government A.Kerenski announced that he would take all measures to destroy the uprising in Petrograd. (Photo: The Prime Minister of the Provisional Government A.Kerenski/Source: Ogonek Magazine)

Amidst the extremely serious situation, V.I.Lenin advocated an immediate uprising. In the early morning of October 25, 1917 (equivalent to November 7, 1917, in Gregorian calendar), from the Winter Palace and a few other places, the insurgent forces took control of Petrograd. (File Photo: VNA)

At 10am on October 25, the Revolutionary Military Centre of the Petrograd Soviets published the appeal "To the Citizens of Russia" drafted by V.I.Lenin, which declared that the Provisional Government had been overthrown and the government had gone to the Soviets. (Photo: Wikimedia)

At 9:40pm, following the artillery command from the Cruiser Aurora, the rebels attacked the Winter Palace, the last entrenched place of the Provisional Government. By 2:10am of October 26, 1917, the Winter Palace was occupied, and the ministers of the Provisional Government were arrested. Provisional Prime Minister A. Kerenskii fled abroad. (Photo: TASS).

V.I.Lenin and revolutionary soldiers in the Winter Palace during the days of the October Revolution in 1917. (File Photo: VNA)

Also on October 25, 1917, the Second All-Russian Congress of Soviets opened. At the session on the night of October 26 and dawn of October 27, the congress approved the first two decrees of the Soviet administration including the “Peace Ordinance” and “the “Land Ordinance” drafted by V.I.Lenin. The congress elected the first Soviet Government called the Council of People's Commissars, led by V.I.Lenin. (File Photo: VNA)

On November 15, 1917, the Soviet government was established in Moscow. By March 1918, the Soviet Government gained a total victory all over Russia. The Russian October Revolution was absolutely successful. (The paining by I. Toidze/Soure: mir24.tv)

Bolshevik Party's leader, V. I. Lenin, addressing at the meeting on the first anniversary of the great Russian October Revolution in Red Square in 1918. (Photo: Mir24.tv)

Actually, the Russian October Revolution took place in November and the February Revolution took place in March. This is because Russia used the Julian calendar, which was usually two weeks later than the current Gregorian calendar. In 1918, Russia celebrated the anniversary of the October Revolution on November 7 according to the Gregorian calendar. A solemn massive military parade was held in front of Red Square in Moscow at that time. In 1927, the Soviet Union issued a regulation of applying two public holidays on November 7-8 on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the October Revolution. On September 25, 1992, Russia amended the Labour Law and November 8 was no longer a holiday. On November 7, 1996, Russian President Boris Yeltsin signed a decree, in which the anniversary of the Great October Revolution was renamed the Accord and Reconciliation Day. Since December 29, 2004, November 7 has become a normal working day. In 2005, Russia designated November 7 as one of the memorable days in the history of the country, associated with the most important historical milestones for the state and society.