jan 5, 1917 - Russian Revolution
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1.The February Revolution took place in which workers and women protested for lack of bread in the streets of Petrograd
2. On Nov 6-7 the Red Guards and other revolutionary groups moved under the Soviets Military revolutionary committee. Once the shot came from the Battleship of Aurora, thousands of people stormed into the Winter Palace and the provisional government fell in Bolsheviks hands
3. The Bolsheviks got the only a small amount of territory in Petrograd. The Moscow Soviets approached the provisional government by trying to overthrow it, but when it came to the assembly of universal suffrage the Bolsheviks were defeated
The most important event would be the second one because in the end the Bolsheviks gained control and knew how to gain support from the citizens in order to have the provisional governement
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