THE BOLSHEVIKS
SEIZE
THE
WINTER PALACE
November 7, 1917
(October 25, 1917, O.S.)
THE WINTER PALACE
THE HERMITAGE
ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA
Photographed in Leningrad, the USSR, in 1984
Power was seized in October/November 1917 not from the Tsar; Nicholas II had been overthrown in the February Revolution earlier in 1917, and not by the Bolsheviks (their leader Lenin was absent in Switzerland at the time).
It was Premier Alexander Kerensky's Provisional Government that was in the autumn of 1917 headquartered in the Winter Palace, and found itself the object of the coup the communists organized, successfully. It took a Civil War and more, but the Soviet Union founded out of this "Great October Revolution" lasted until December 1991.
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