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People
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Glossary
Timeline
(1952)
Empires and revolutions
1895–1918
The Versailles order
1919–1929
Depression and expansion
1930–1938
The Second World War
1939–1945
1895
1905
1910
1917
1918
All eras
March
·
November
1917
March
12
The February Revolution
On 12 March 1917 the Petrograd garrison joined the strikers. Within days the monarchy fell, and power was shared by the Provisional Government and the Soviet.
November
07
Key event
The October Revolution
On 7 November 1917 Lenin's Bolsheviks took Petrograd almost unopposed and toppled the Provisional Government. The road to civil war and the USSR began.