The bolsheviks
- Vladimir Lenin returns from exile in April
- Germans helped assist him by giving him a train and passage through Finland
- States April Theses denouncing the war
- the Kronstadt Mutiny
- 20,000 armed soldiers took control of Petrograd and demanded the Soviet take power
- Kornilov threatened to attack the city
- Bolsheviks led by Trotsky( military side)
- Lenin led the Petrograd uprising and it was bloodless
- cruiser Aurora fired one blank shot at Winter palace
- Winter palace defended by Cossack's Women's Battalion of death
Summary
Lenin was allowed into Russia by Germany in the hope that he would start revolution ending the war. He did and gained control of many military and civilians.