Bolshevik Revolution & The Russian Civil War

Duma / Parliament becomes the provisional government

Alexander Kerensky

Brusilov Offensive

Half A Million Dead

Could not be in Absolute Control – soviets (committees of soldiers and

workers)

Allowing exiles like Lenin to return

Zinoviev & Kamenev

“Peace, Bread, Land NOW!”“Power to the Soviets!”

Red Guards – Leon Trotsky

Arrest of communists & Lenin in exile again

Kornilov Affair – Attempted coup

Levr Kornilov

Release of imprisoned Bolsheviks and arming of Red Guards

Revolution