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| 1917 November 6 |
| | | British and Canadian infantry, slithering through a morass of mud, capture the village of Passchendaele | |
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| 1917 November 7 |
| | | Edmund Allenby takes the Palestinian town of Gaza, at the third British attempt | |
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| 1917 November 7 |
| | | Bolsheviks storm the Winter Palace in Petrograd and arrest the ministers of the Provisional Government | |
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| 1917 November 8 |
| | | Lenin issues a Decree of Peace, inviting Russia's enemies to enter into immediate peace negotiations | |
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| 1917 November 8 |
| | | Lenin's Decree on Land abolishes private ownership of large estates and promises the land to the peasants | |
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| 1917 November 8-12 |
| | | The Bolsheviks attempt to stifle opposition in the run-up to the election for Russia's new Constituent Assembly | |
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| 1917 November 20 |
| | | Suitable ground is selected by the British at the battle of Cambrai for the first serious deployment of their new tanks | |
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| 1917 December |
| | | The Cheka (origin of the KGB) is established to suppress political dissent in Russia | |
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| 1917 December |
| | | Wartime scarcity causes sugar rationing to be imposed in Britain, to be followed soon by meat and butter and related products | |
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| 1917 December 9 |
| | | The British commander Edmund Allenby captures Jerusalem from its Turkish defenders | |
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