Tuesday, November 07, 2006
This Day in History
On this day in the Russian Empire in 1917, beginning in St. Petersburg, the great, 'Red October' Bolshevik Revolution (Великая Октябрьская социалистическая революция) began against the provisional government of Aleksandr Kerenski. The Petrograd Soviet, under the guidance of Trotsky and Joffe, started the ball rolling for what would soon become a full blown Civil War. More human suffering resulted from this than from any other single event (until post-war China went red). Loyal readers of this blog know why the October Revolution began in November.
# posted by Roger Fraley @ 7:16 AM 
