Bolshevik_Revolution

Bolshevik Revolution Bolshevik revolution Military defeats and high casualties caused a contagious lack of confidence in Tsar Nicholas, who was forced to abdicate Mar. 1917. A liberal provisional government failed to end the war, and massive desertions, riots, and fighting between factions followed. A moderate socialist government under Kerensky was overthrown in a violent coup by the Bolsheviks in Petrograd under Lenin, who disbanded the elected Constituent Assembly in Nov. 1917. The Bolsheviks brutally suppressed all opposition and ended the war with war, bolsheviks, under, red, mar, government, civil, between, army, 1917, wartime, vladivostok, violent, victory, until, units, ukrainians, tsar, total, suppressed, supporters, summer, socialist, small, riots, revolution, retained, provisional, power, political, police, poles, pogroms, petrograd, party, overthrown