Leon Trotsky
March 15th 1917 after losing control of the army, he left the duma committee to form their own government.
Vladimir Lenin
Lenin took power in the October 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, which actually took place in November 1917, but Russia was using the Julian calendar instead of the Gregorian calendar. Lenin's Bolsheviks had control of some parts of the government, but not all The Russian Civil War broke out between the Red Army (Lenin and the Bolsheviks) and the opposing White Army. The Red Army won out in 1920, placing Lenin firmly in power.
The communists RED Army defeated the Tzars WHITE Army during the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917.
Before the Communist revolution of 1917, the Russian army were fighting the Germans and the Austro-Hungarian army in WW1.
The Red Army was Lenin's army in the Russian Civil War that broke out after the October Revolution of 1917. The Red Army fought the White Army, eventually routing the White Army forces and establishing Lenin and the Bolsheviks as the power in Russia from then on.
Trotsky led the Bolshevik/Communist Red Army forces in the Russian Civil War after the October Revolution of 1917.
The Civil War ended in 1921. The communist Red Army was victorious.
The Russian Revolution of 1905 was a wave of mass political and social unrest that spread through vast areas of the Russian Empire, some of which was directed at the government. It included worker strikes, peasant unrest, and military mutinies. It led the Russian Constitution of 1906.An event became known as Bloody Sunday, and is considered by many scholars as the start of the active phase of the revolution.The Russian Revolution was a pair of revolutions in Russia in 1917, which dismantled the Tsarist autocracy and led to the eventual rise of the Soviet Union.The Russian Civil War: November 1917 – October 1922 was a multi-party war in the former Russian Empire immediately after the Russian Revolutions of 1917, as many factions vied to determine Russia's political future.The two largest combatant groups were the Red Army, fighting for the Bolshevik form of socialism led by Vladimir Lenin, and the loosely allied forces known as the White Army, which included diverse interests favoring monarchism, capitalism and alternative forms of socialism, each with democratic and antidemocratic variants. The Red Army won and set up events that led to the formation of the USSR.
White Russians under Baron Wrangel lost at Sevastopol to the Red Army on the 14th of November 1920.
John Shelton Curtiss has written: 'The Russian army under Nicholas I, 1825-1855' -- subject(s): History, Military, Military History 'The Russian revolutions of 1917'
Jerry Joins the Army - 1917 was released on: USA: 24 May 1917