Question

What action did the Bolsheviks and the Red Guard take in November, 1917?

Answer 1

In November 1917, the Bolsheviks and the Red Guard staged a successful armed uprising in Petrograd (now St. Petersburg) that led to the overthrow of the Provisional Government and the establishment of Bolshevik control over Russia. This event, known as the October Revolution (according to the Julian calendar then in use in Russia, which corresponds to November in the Gregorian calendar), marked the beginning of the Soviet regime and the formation of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.