The 7th of November of 1917 (25th of October in the Julian calendar), the match hanging above Russia was finally lit. Lenin ordered the Petrograd Soviet and all other soviets under the command of the Bolsheviks to rise up in arms. Kerensky's republican government was unable to respond in any real capacity. The Winter Palace, seat of the Russian government, was cut off and sieged until its defenders surrendered, allowing the Bolsheviks to hold session of the Second All-Russian Congress of Soviets, where it was decided that the Bolsheviks, Mensheviks and Social Revolutionaries would join forces, forming a new hegemonic All-Russian Communist Party.
World War I - The October Revolution
World History - World Wars
November 1917