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The people rebeled against Czar Nicolas II he gave up the throne. A provisional government was administrated not long after Nicolas gave up the throne.
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The people broke out in rebellions because of food and coal shortages.This was known as the Feburary Revolution...
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Nicolas Czar II was forced to step down from the throne.Nicholas and his family were later taken into custody. The Bolsheviks killed them at Yekaterinburg in 1918.
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Lenin, who had lived in Switzerland since 1914, returned to Petrograd in April 1917. There, he began calling for an overthrow of the provisional government.
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General Lavr Kornilov, the army commander in chief, made a bid to seize power. As Kornilov advanced on Petrograd, Kerensky released the imprisoned Bolsheviks and allowed them to arm the workers. Kornilov's force broke up before reaching the capital, and the coup attempt ended without violence.
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On Nov. 7, 1917 a Bolshevik-led army of workers, soldiers, and sailors took control of key positions in Petrograd. That night, they captured the Winter Palace, which had become the headquarters of Kerensky's provisional government. Other cities, including Moscow, soon fell to the Bolsheviks.
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On Nov. 8, 1917, the All-Russian Congress of Soviets authorized the Bolsheviks to set up a Council of People's Commissars to run the national government. The new government established a secret police force called the Cheka.
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Russia negotiated a cease-fire.
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The Bolshevik government moved the capital of Russia from Petrograd to Moscow. The Bolsheviks also altered the name of their Russian Social Democratic Labor Party to the Russian Communist Party. It later became the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
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The soviet constitution went into effect.
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The Communist had won and the revolution was over.
