The Bolsheviks seized power during the decade of the 1910s. It was in 1917.
The Bolsheviks were able to seize power in 1917 because of a weak monarchy. The Tzar and his family were ill prepared for a revolution.
The Bolsheviks did not seize power during the Russian Civil War. They had already seized governmental power from the Provisional Government in 1917. The civil war is generally figured to have started in 1918. The Bolsheviks managed to retain their power, not seize it, by winning the civil war.
The Bolsheviks seized power from the Russian Provisional Government headed by Alexander Kerensky. They did NOT seize power from Tsar Nicholas II. He had been deposed eight months earlier and was no longer in power.
The Bolsheviks main belief was to seize state power and to establish dictatorship of the proletariat's.
The Bolsheviks were planning an attack for a long time. They occupied telephone exchange, railway stations and government buildings.
Squads of Red Gaurds joined mutinoussailors from the Russian fleet in attacking the provisional government, in a matter of days the provisional government was overthrown and the bolsheviks siezed power
Squads of Red Gaurds joined mutinoussailors from the Russian fleet in attacking the provisional government, in a matter of days the provisional government was overthrown and the bolsheviks siezed power.
The Great October Socialist Revolution of 1917 saw the Bolsheviks seize the main power base in Russia. They staged an armed insurrection in Petrograd and succeeded in establishing themselves as the new governing power.
Febuary 1917
how did world war 1 help the Bolsheviks seize power in russia in 1917 Russia did not do well in World War 1. Losses were so high that Russia withdrew from the war in 1917, increasing the Russian people's dissatisfaction with Czarist rule.
The most important factors were Bloody Sunday and the Czar's mistreatment of the people Bloody Sunday occurred in 1905, therefore it could not have been one of the most important factors that enabled the Bolsheviks to seize power in October 1917. Bloody Sunday led to the feeling that the Tsar should be overthrown but not that the Bolsheviks should be in power. An important factor that enabled the Bolsheviks to seize power was that they were the one political party that had armed forces at its disposal. This was the Military Revolutionary Committee that had been set up days before the actual revolution. It was under the control of the Petrograd Soviet, which by then was under the Bolsheviks with Leon Trotsky at its head. With this armed force the Bolsheviks were able to seize and hold vital transportation, communication and military installations. This paralyzed the Provisional Government from alerting its own forces to what was happening and preventing it from bringing in troops to fight against the armed Bolsheviks. Another important factor was that the Bolsheviks had so infiltrated the Petrograd garrison that its soldiers were more loyal to the Bolsheviks than to their own commanders. The result was that when the Provisional Government tried to order the garrison out to fight the Bolsheviks, it refused to do so.
To take control of Russia and spread Marxism throughout the world. They would have done it earlier than 1917 if they had been able, but Russia was weakened by the beating it took from Germany in World War I, and the time was right to seize power.