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October Revolution

Second of two 1917 revolutions in RussiaBelligerentsBolsheviksLeft Socialist-RevolutionariesAnarchistsRussian RepublicCommanders and leadersVladimir LeninLeon TrotskyLev KamenevVladimir OvseenkoPavel DybenkoYakov SverdlovAlexander KerenskyPyotr KrasnovStrength10,000 Red sailors20,000–30,000 Red Guard soldiersUnknown number of workers500–1,000 volunteer soldiers1,000 soldiers of the women's battalionCasualties and losses Few Red Guard soldiers wounded All imprisoned or desertedRed Guard unit of the Vulkan factory in Petrograd, October 1917Bolshevik (1920) by Boris KustodievThe New York Times headline from 9 November 1917The October Revolution, also known as the Great October Socialist Revolution (in Soviet historiography), October coup, Bolshevik coup, or Bolshevik Revolution, was the second of two revolutions in Russia in 1917.

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