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 Wk 43 (25 October 1917)

Communists Depose Russian RulersThis Week in HistoryCommunists led by Vladimir Lenin bring down the Russian government.

In 1917, Bolshevik communists led by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin stormed the Winter Palace in St Petersburg and deposed the provisional Kerensky government. Despite strong support in St Petersburg and Moscow, they couldn't gain control over the entire country and civil war soon broke out. The conflict continued until 1920 when the communists finally gained control of the country as a whole.