October Revolution

Saint Petersburg is a city and a federal subject of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea. In 1914... the name of the city was changed to Petrograd , in 1924 to Leningrad and in 1991 back to Saint Petersburg. In Russian literature, informal documents and discourse the "Saint" is usually omitted, leaving Petersburg . In common parlance Russians may drop "-burg" as well, leaving only Peter . Saint Petersburg was founded by Tsar Peter the Great on 27 [O.S. 16] May 1703. From 1713 to 1728 and from 1732 to 1918, Saint Petersburg was the Imperial capital of Russia. In 1918 the central government bodies moved from Saint Petersburg to Moscow. It is Russia's second largest city after Moscow with almost 5 million inhabitants. Saint Petersburg is a major European cultural center, and also an important Russian port on the Baltic Sea.
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The Russian Revolution is the collective term for a series of revolutions in Russia in 1917, which destroyed the Tsarist autocracy and led to the... creation of the Soviet Union. The Tsar was deposed and replaced by a provisional government in the first revolution of February 1917 . In the second revolution, during October, the Provisional Government was removed and replaced with a Bolshevik government. The February Revolution was a revolution focused around Petrograd . In the chaos, members of the Imperial parliament or Duma assumed control of the country, forming the Russian Provisional Government. The army leadership felt they did not have the means to suppress the revolution and Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, the last Tsar of Russia, abdicated. The Soviets , which were led by more radical socialist factions, initially permitted the Provisional Government to rule, but insisted on a prerogative to influence the government and control various militias.
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Junker mutiny was a counterrevolutionary mutiny of students of junker schools against the Bolsheviks in Petrograd in October 1917. On October 29 of... 1917, students of junker schools in Petrograd rose up against the Bolsheviks under the leadership of the Committee for Salvation of Motherland and Revolution , organised by the Right Esers. The goal of the mutiny was to support the Kerensky-Krasnov uprising . The rebellious students wanted to seize the city telephone exchange, Peter and Paul Fortress, Smolny and arrest the Soviet government together with the Bolshevik leaders. On October 29, the Red Guard patrol detained one of the leaders of the Junker mutiny, an Eser A.A.Bruderer, who had a plan of the mutiny with him. Former commander-in-chief of the Petrograd military okrug Colonel G.P.
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