15/01/2018 · Take a look below for 30 more fascinating and interesting facts about the October Revolution. 1. The October Revolution followed and capitalized on the February Revolution that also happened in 1917, which overthrew the Tsarist autocracy and resulted in a provisional government after a transfer of power proclaimed by Grand Duke Michael, who was the brother …

The October Revolution was actually the second Russian revolution of 1917. In March, revolutionaries led by the Petrograd soviet, or council, violently overthrew Czar Nicholas II, the monarch whose family had ruled Russia for more than three centuries. The czarist government was replaced by a republic, largely led by Russian nobles.

October Revolution (1917) The time was ripe for war. Russia was struggling economically and was on the brink of financial collapse. The sharp increase in prices, as well as rabid unemployment, only fueled the already dissatisfied working class’ zeal for political change. The ideology of Karl Marx, who theoretically championed the cause of the ...

The October Revolution shaped the twentieth-century world arguably more than any other single event. It brought to power a new regime, one that ruled in the name of the working class and that established a non-capitalist, state-run economy.

October Revolution, (Oct. 24–25 [Nov. 6–7, New Style], 1917), the second and last major phase of the Russian Revolution of 1917, in which the Bolshevik Party seized power in Russia, inaugurating the Soviet regime.