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Lenin, in disguise, returns from Finland to Petrograd, where he hides in the flat of a party worker
Lenin persuades the Bolshevik central committee to vote for an armed insurrection
The soldiers of the Petrograd garrison mutiny on being ordered to the front
The Peter and Paul fortress is taken, giving the Bolsheviks control of Petrograd
Bolsheviks storm the Winter Palace in Petrograd and arrest the ministers of the Provisional Government
Lenin issues a Decree of Peace, inviting Russia's enemies to enter into immediate peace negotiations
Lenin's Decree on Land abolishes private ownership of large estates and promises the land to the peasants
The Bolsheviks attempt to stifle opposition in the run-up to the election for Russia's new Constituent Assembly
The Cheka (origin of the KGB) is established to suppress political dissent in Russia
Finland wins freedom from Russia and becomes an independent republic
In Alexander Blok's poem The Twelve, Christ leads his apostles in support of Russia's revolution
The Russian artist Kasimir Malevich begins a series of White on White paintings
Supporters of the old regime within the Russian army prepare to use force against the new Bolshevik regime
Lenin dissolves the elected assembly in Petrograd to establish a one-party Soviet state
Lavr Kornilov leads the heroic Ice March which boosts the morale of the White Russians
The Bolsheviks, now in power, change their name to the more resounding Russian Communist Party
At Brest-Litovsk Lenin signs a peace treaty with Germany and Austria, ceding vast territories and valuable resources
Lenin moves the capital of Russia from Petrograd back to Moscow
Trotsky, given the task of creating an army for the Bolsheviks, conscripts peasants from the villages
Russia's peasants, victims of White and Red Terror, suffer atrocities from both sides in the civil war
Civil war enables the Bolsheviks to impose a rigid system of state control on the Russian economy, through War Communism and Food Brigades
Tsar Nicholas II and his wife and children are murdered by the Bolsheviks at Ekaterinburg
The Soviet system of Gulag slave labour camps is introduced, under the control of the secret service, the Cheka
A White army, advancing on Moscow, is stopped about 250 miles from the city
A White army occupies hills overlooking Petrograd before being driven back by Trotsky
