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1917 October 15
 
   
The dancer Mata Hari is executed in France as a German spy      
1917
 
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Ocxtober 24 - a victory at Caporetto enables the Austrian army to penetrate far into northeast Italy     
1917 November
 
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Women are enlisted into Britain's army (Women's Auxiliary Corps) and navy (Women's Royal Naval Service)       
1917 November 3
 
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The soldiers of the Petrograd garrison mutiny on being ordered to the front     
1917 November 5
 
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The Peter and Paul fortress is taken, giving the Bolsheviks control of Petrograd        
1917 November 6
 
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British and Canadian infantry, slithering through a morass of mud, capture the village of Passchendaele     
1917 November 7
 
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Edmund Allenby takes the Palestinian town of Gaza, at the third British attempt      
1917 November 7
 
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Bolsheviks storm the Winter Palace in Petrograd and arrest the ministers of the Provisional Government       
1917 November 8
 
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Lenin issues a Decree of Peace, inviting Russia's enemies to enter into immediate peace negotiations       
1917 November 8
 
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Lenin's Decree on Land abolishes private ownership of large estates and promises the land to the peasants