October Revolution

The October Revolution is a euphemism, an alternative name for the Bolshevik Revolution, which was the coup d'etat, the take over of Russia after the February Revolution, the genuine Russian revolution which happened in February 1917. When that event occurred it came as a total surprise to Lenin in Zurich and to Trotsky in America.

They rushed back to take over and destroy what might have become a decent democracy. The Sealed Train tells us about Lenin's journey from Zürich to the Finland Station. Trotsky almost did not make it back. He was captured by MI5 then released, sad to say. Claude Dansey of MI6 fouled up. A contemporary report tells us How the Bolsheviks took the Winter Palace  It was in fact a Bolshevik coup d'etat. The Bolsheviks were largely Jews. Their attack led to civil war and the murder of some 85 to 100 million people.

Notice well that the Wiki is evasive about why this coup d'etat was called the October coup. The Wiki is in propaganda mode.

MI5 Captured Trotsky On His Way To Revolt In Russia
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Leon Trotsky, the creator of the Red Army, was detained on the orders of MI5 in a move which could have prevented him from playing any part in the Russian revolution and its aftermath,............. Papers made available at the Public Record Office show how MI5, and the French and Spanish security services, monitored Trotsky's movement in the months leading to the revolution in February 1917 which overthrew the Tsarist regime.

The previous autumn Trotsky was expelled from France after his Paris paper, Nashe Slovo (Our Word) was suppressed on the grounds it was subversive and anti-war. He set off for Madrid, "surrounded by spies" who, he noted, regarded him as a "dangerous terrorist agitator". [ He "was" - "Editor" The so called "Grauniad" wants the "peasants" to think it knows better. ]. In Madrid he was immediately arrested, jailed, and taken to Cadiz where he was told he was going to be put on a boat to Havana. But after angry protests, Trotsky was allowed to remain a few more days and sail, instead, to New York........

MI5 continued to monitor Trotsky's activities. In a telegram from New York to London, dated March 22, 1917, an MI5 agent warned: "An important movement has been started here among Socialists, with a view to getting back Revolutionary Socialists into Russia ... with [the] object of establishing a Republic and initiating Peace movement; also of promoting Socialistic Revolutions in other countries, including the United States". The "main leader", the telegram noted, "is Trotsky", who was planning to leave the US for Russia. A few days later, the MI5 agent dispatched a message to London saying Trotsky had set sail "with $10,000 subscribed by Socialists and Germans" on the way to Petrograd, now St Petersburg.

The agent ordered the ship to be detained when it stopped at Halifax in Canada. Trotsky was arrested with five Russian comrades. There he could have remained, had it not been for the intervention of the Secret Intelligence Service, MI6.
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Errare human est. Deciding which source got it right leaves scope for getting it wrong.

 

October Revolution
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The October Revolution (Russian: Октябрьская революция, Oktyabr'skaya revolyutsiya), also known as the Russian Revolution, Great October Socialist Revolution, Red October or the Bolshevik Revolution, was a political revolution and a part of the Russian Revolution of 1917. It took place with an armed insurrection in Petrograd traditionally dated to 25 October 1917 Julian calendar (7 November 1917 Gregorian calendar). It was the second phase of the Russian Revolution, after the February Revolution of the same year. The October Revolution in Petrograd overthrew the Russian Provisional Government and gave the power to the local soviets dominated by Bolsheviks. As the revolution was not universally recognized outside of Petrograd there followed the struggles of the Russian Civil War (1917–1922) and the creation of the Soviet Union in 1922.

The revolution was led by the Bolsheviks, who used their influence in the Petrograd Soviet to organize the armed forces. Bolshevik Red Guards forces under the Military Revolutionary Committee began the takeover of government buildings on 24 October. On 25 October (Julian Calendar) the Winter Palace (the seat of the Provisional government located in Petrograd, then capital of Russia), was captured.

Etymology
Initially, the event was referred to as the October coup (Октябрьский переворот) or the Uprising of 25th, as seen in contemporary documents (for example, in the first editions of Lenin's complete works). With time, the term October Revolution came into use – it is also known as the "November Revolution," having occurred in November according to the Gregorian Calendar – and the event became seen as an event of major importance [ because it was - Editor ].
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That is from the Wiki. Believe what you will of it.

 

October Revolution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopaedia
This article is about the Soviet Revolution of 1917
The October Revolution (Russian: Октябрьская революция, Oktyabr'skaya revolyutsiya), also known as the Great October Socialist Revolution, Red October or the Bolshevik Revolution, was a political revolution and a part of the Russian Revolution of 1917. It took place with an armed insurrection in Petrograd traditionally dated to 25 October 1917 Gregorian Calendar (O.S.), which corresponds with 7 November 1917 New Style (N.S.).

It was the second phase of the Russian Revolution, after the February Revolution of the same year. The October Revolution in Petrograd overthrew the Russian Provisional Government and gave the power to the local soviets dominated by Bolsheviks. As the revolution was not universally recognized outside of Petrograd there followed the struggles of the Russian Civil War (1917–1922) and the creation of the Soviet Union in 1922.

The revolution was led by the Bolsheviks, who used their influence in the Petrograd Soviet to organize the armed forces. Bolshevik Red Guards forces under the Military Revolutionary Committee began the takeover of government buildings on 24 October 1917 (O.S.). The following day the Winter Palace (the seat of the Provisional government located in Petrograd, then capital of Russia), was captured.

Background
A nationwide crisis had developed in Russia affecting social, economic, and political relations. The policies of the Russian Provisional Government had brought the country to the brink of catastrophe. Disorder in industry and transport had intensified, and difficulties in obtaining provisions had increased........

By October 1917 there had been over four thousand peasant uprisings against landowners. When the Provisional Government sent out punitive detachments it only enraged the peasants. The garrisons in Petrograd, Moscow, and other cities, the Northern and Western fronts, and the sailors of the Baltic Fleet in September openly declared through their elected representative body Tsentrobalt that they did not recognize the authority of the Provisional Government and would not carry out any of its commands.
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It was not a lot of fun for people. The Cheka or secret police were very successful in causing general gloom.

 

Bolsheviks
Are the comedians who brought us the Bolshevik Revolution with millions of dead to prove it. They were not all Jews.

 

Guardian correspondent kept under surveillance
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This will be Arthur Ransome who wrote some splendid children's books including Swallows and Amazons. He also played chess with Lenin and married Trotsky's secretary.

 

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