Skip to content
★Maps of History Start free

Russian Revolution · TURNING POINT ·

Second All-Russian Congress of Soviets (1917)

On the Russian Revolution map as “The Second Congress”

25–27 Oct 1917 — As the Bolsheviks present the coup as an accomplished fact, the Mensheviks and Right SRs walk out in protest — leaving the hall, and the revolution, to Lenin. Trotsky consigns them to “the dustbin of history.”

When
Type
Turning point
Chapter
October Revolution (chapter 6 of Russian Revolution)
Atlas
The Russian Revolution, 1855–1924
Open this map in the interactive atlas →

Chapter 6 is part of membership. WW2 is free — every chapter. Try chapters 1–2 of any 2 other atlases (3 with a free account). Opening a new atlas uses one of them. Membership opens all 21 — Join.

Free printable Russian Revolution study guide, sent by email ↓

Map showing Second All-Russian Congress of Soviets (1917), turning point in The Russian Revolution, 1855–1924
TURNING POINT · THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION, 1855–1924

In the same chapter

● Winter Palace● Constituent Assembly✕ Moscow rising

Related

THE FREE PRINTABLE STUDY GUIDE

Join the Dispatch — a short welcome series, then a letter when a new atlas opens — and the printable study guide for The Russian Revolution is yours now, free.

NO TRACKING · YOUR ADDRESS IS USED FOR THE DISPATCH AND NOTHING ELSE · UNSUBSCRIBE ANYTIME