WWI · TURNING POINT ·
October Revolution (1917)
7 Nov 1917 — Lenin’s Bolsheviks seize the Winter Palace almost bloodlessly, on the promise of “peace, land, bread.” Russia sues for armistice within weeks — watch this map turn revolution-red and the Eastern Front dissolve.
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- Turning point
- Chapter
- WWI in 1917, the year of crisis (chapter 10 of WWI)
- Atlas
- The Great War, 1871–1923
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