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LENIN'S BLOODY REVOLUTION

KEY
“ELECTIONS FIGURES
WERE PROMISED
AND THEN POSTPONED, BOLSHEVIKS
BUT BEFORE THEY Vladimir Lenin

COULD HAPPEN, THE Leader of the Bolsheviks
The revolutionary thinker and
BOLSHEVIKS SEIZED politician steered Russia to
communist revolution and was
its premier from 1917 until his
POWER” death from a stroke in 1924,
aged 53. His body lay in state
forfourdaysandwasviewedby
almost a million mourners.
Leon Trotsky
Chairman of the Revolutionary
Committee
Initially a Menshevik, Trotsky
joined the Bolsheviks for
the 1917 revolution and was
instrumental in its success.
He was later expelled from the
Communist Party and exiled for
hisoppositiontoStalin.Hewas
assassinated in 1940.
Joseph Stalin
Member of the Central
Committee
A minor player in the 1917
revolution, Stalin rose through
Bolshevik ranks until he took
leadership following Lenin’s
Lenin speaking at the death. His rule turned Russia
Tauride Palace in 1917
into an industrial power, but he
was also responsible for the deaths
of millions in the Gulags.
PROVISIONAL
GOVERNMENT

PrinceGeorgyLvov
Minister President/Minister of
the Interior
The first post-imperial prime
minister of Russia, Lvov was
the first head of the Provisional
Government following Nicholas
II’s abdication. A veteran of the
Duma, he failed to garner much
support and resigned after four
months.
Alexander Kerensky
Minister of Justice/Minister
of War and Navy/ Minister
President
The Trudovik Kerensky
took over the Provisional
Government in July 1917.
Unpopular with the military, he
was deposed by the revolution.
He fled and remained in exile until
his death in 1970.
Viktor Chernov
Minister of Agriculture
One of the founding members
of the Russian Socialist-
Revolutionaries, Chernov was
a formidable political analyst
– some called him the “brain”
of the party. Following the
Bolsheviks’ seizure of power he,
The Provisional Government like Kerensky, fled to Europe.
in Petrograd, 1917

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