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The 77 pages that link to October Revolution, each with the reason it gives.

• Soviet UnionBroader topic: It established the party-led government that claimed authority over former imperial territories.

• Russian RevolutionBroader topic: It transferred central state power to the Bolsheviks.

• Russian Civil WarRelated: The takeover prompted armed opposition from supporters of the Provisional Government and other political groups.

• Dissolution of the Soviet UnionCompared with: The revolution founded the political order whose federal successor ended in 1991.

• Marxism–LeninismBroader topic: It became the founding example of a Leninist party taking state power.

• Leon TrotskyBroader topic: Trotsky’s leadership of the Petrograd Soviet’s Military Revolutionary Committee helped coordinate the takeover.

• Treaty of Brest-LitovskRelated: It brought the Bolsheviks to power and made their promised exit from the war immediate.

• Red ArmyRelated: The new government needed an armed force to secure its rule.

• Leonid BrezhnevNarrower topic: It founded the party-state in which Brezhnev built his political career.

• Saint PetersburgRelated: The revolution began in the capital then known as Petrograd and ended imperial rule.

• February RevolutionRelated: It displaced the Provisional Government created after the February uprising.

• BolsheviksBroader topic: This insurrection turned Bolshevik influence into control of the central government.

• LeninismBroader topic: It became the defining example of Leninist revolutionary strategy in action.

• Russian Social Democratic Labour PartyRelated: The Bolshevik faction, formed within the party, led the seizure of power.

• TrotskyismBroader topic: Trotsky helped organize the insurrection later treated as a defining revolutionary achievement.

• White movementBroader topic: Opposition to this takeover became the coalition’s defining bond.

• Dmitri ShostakovichBroader topic: Its political aftermath transformed the institutions in which his generation trained and worked.

• BolshevismBroader topic: It was the decisive insurrection through which Bolsheviks took national power.

• Finnish Civil WarRelated: It encouraged Finnish radicals and weakened the authority that had governed Finland.

• MensheviksCompared with: The Mensheviks opposed the Bolshevik takeover as premature and undemocratic.

• Russian FuturismRelated: The Revolution created new institutions and political expectations that reshaped Futurist activity.

• Alexander BlokBroader topic: Blok’s The Twelve responds to the new revolutionary order that followed it.

• Moscow KremlinRelated: After the revolution, the Soviet government made Moscow and the Kremlin its center.

• Russian emigrationBroader topic: It sharply intensified departures among groups opposed to Bolshevik rule.

• Saur RevolutionCompared with: It offers a major historical comparison for a revolutionary party taking state power.

• Russian Soviet Federative Socialist RepublicRelated: It brought the Bolsheviks to power and led to the RSFSR’s founding.

• Vyacheslav MolotovRelated: Molotov worked for the Bolsheviks during the upheaval that established their government.

• Dictatorship of the proletariatBroader topic: The Bolsheviks presented their new government as a form of proletarian rule.

• Russian Constituent AssemblyRelated: The seizure put the Bolsheviks in control before the assembly could meet.

• War communismRelated: The new government’s consolidation of power preceded its wartime economic measures.

• Revolutionary socialismBroader topic: It brought a revolutionary socialist party to state power and reshaped global politics.

• Vsevolod MeyerholdRelated: The revolution brought Meyerhold into Soviet cultural institutions and transformed the conditions of his work.

• Basmachi movementRelated: The new regime’s expanding authority became the immediate target of resistance.

• Mikhail TukhachevskyRelated: The revolution created the Soviet state and military institutions in which his career unfolded.

• Nikolai BukharinBroader topic: Bukharin supported the seizure of power and became a prominent voice in the new regime.

• Ukrainian War of IndependenceRelated: It brought a rival revolutionary government into conflict with Ukraine's emerging authorities.

• What Is to Be Done?Broader topic: The disciplined party model debated in the pamphlet later guided the party that took power.

• Workers’ councilsRelated: The revolution brought councils into a state system whose authority increasingly shifted to the Bolshevik Party.

• Alexander KerenskyBroader topic: It ended the government Kerensky led and forced him to flee the capital.

• First United FrontRelated: Its success inspired Chinese revolutionaries and made Soviet assistance politically influential.

• Proletarian internationalismRelated: Its leaders presented the revolution as a beginning of international socialist transformation.

• Mikhail SholokhovRelated: The revolution transformed the political order confronting the Cossack communities Sholokhov portrays.

• Petrograd SovietBroader topic: The Soviet’s institutions and military committee helped enable the transfer of power.

• Russian Provisional GovernmentRelated: It ended the Provisional Government and transferred state power to the Bolsheviks.

• Bolshevik RevolutionRelated: The uprising itself was the decisive event in the Bolshevik seizure of power.

• ChekaRelated: The new government created the Cheka soon after taking power.

• Proletarian revolutionBroader topic: It established the government that claimed to rule in the workers’ name.

• Socialist Revolutionary PartyRelated: The party opposed the Bolshevik takeover, despite its substantial popular support.

• Soviet democracyRelated: The Bolsheviks claimed power in the name of the soviets.

• VanguardismBroader topic: The revolution made the party's claimed leadership a governing reality.