Bolsheviks have hatched
a military plot against the
lawful government."
"We will have hunger and
ruin instead of bread."
"The country's ruin will be
Bolshevik's destruction."
"But the revolution
will also perish."
"Down with him !"
"Down with the lackeys of
the bourgeoisie!"
Election of the Congress Presidium.
"AII those in favor of the
Mensheviks and S.R.'s?"
"Not so many."
"AII those in favor of
the Bolsheviks?"
ALL POWER TO THE SOVIETS!
Red Guards held the Winter
Palace in a ring of steel.
Surrender!
You are given 20 minutes...
to avoid bloodshed.
Military, Revolutionary Committee.
Bearers of the truce proposal.
"A man?"
"A woman?"
"Hey, friend!"
"Last ultimatum to
your government."
Waiting for a reply.
Waiting...
One by one, the soldiers of
the Death Battalion surrendered.
Time was running out.
Infiltrators from the Smolny
were making their way into the
Palace to the Cossack battery
through the Palace cellars.
There are 1,100 rooms
in the Palace.
In the main courtyard...
...among the Cossacks
the infiltrators
were at work.
"Officer coming !"
"You dirty..."
"How dare you leave your post!"
"You, a cadet!"
THE MOTHER !
"Cadets! Attention !"
"We have been given
an ultimatum."
"We shall not surrender Russia
to the Bolshevik-German Spies!"
On the floor above...
The infiltrators had done
their job.
"How do you propose to
seize power?"
"I'm asking...
...you Bolsheviks!"
"The Army is
not with you."
"The frontline troops...
...are not with you !"
"That's a lie!"
"You are speaking for Headquarters!"
TWELFTH ARMYSUPPORTS
THE SOVIETS!
"The Twelfth Army...
...is with the Bolsheviks."
"Comrades!"
"Comrades!"
Soldiers of the Cycle Battalion.
"Rally to the Soviets!"
The Cossacks...
...surrendered.
They changed sides.
Still no reply.
NO REPLY.
And at the Congress...
The Mensheviks "discoursed."
"We must try to settle this
sad misunderstanding peacefully,
without fighting,
without bloodshed."
"The Bolsheviks want to
force historical events."
"There will be no peace!"
"There will no bread!"
"The time for words has passed!"
"We want peace!"
"We want bread!"
"We want land!"
The signal!
The guns at the
Peter and Paul Fort.
Committee For The Salvation
Of Country And The Revolution.
Trying to save the
Provisional Government.
To save the Government?
"Why... that is...
the Mayor, in person !"
"We protest most emphatically!"
"Forward!"
The Empress' bedroom.
"Let's get Kerensky!"
"Gentlemen. Let us meet them
in a most dignified manner."
"You are all under arrest
on behalf of the Military
Revolutionary Committee..."
October 25, 1917.
Antonov Ovseyenko.
"...I declare the Provisional
Government deposed!"
ST. PETERSBURG
MOSCOW
NEW YORK
BERLIN
LONDON
PARIS
"Comrades!
The Workers' and
Peasants' Revolution,
which the Bolsheviks have
always deemed necessary,
has been won !"
Wednesday, October 25
(November 7)
Thursday, October 26
(November 8)
DECREE ON PEACE
DECREE ON LAND
"We must now set
about building
a proletarian socialist
state in Russia."
V. Ulyanov (Lenin )
THE END