Account For the Success of the Bolsheviks in October 1917 At the beginning of 1917 most of the Bolsheviks were in exile but by the end of 1917 the Bolshevik party had not only consolidated control of Moscow and Petrograd, but they were also advancing on the rest of the country. This success was due to several linked factors; the Bolshevik policy of non-cooperation, weakness of the Provisional Government, division of alternative opposition, Lenin's leadership skills, the power …showed first 75 words of 2278 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2278 total…they managed to hold power for over seventy years. Bibliography Roy A. Medvedev, The October Revolution (Columbia University Press, 1979, New York) W. Astrov, An Illustrated History of the Russian Revolution (Martin Lawrence Press, 1928, London) Leon Trotsky, The History of the Russian Revolution (University of Michigan Press, 1932, Michigan) Paul Miliukov, The Russian Revolution, Volume 1. (Academic International Press, 1978) James D. White, The Russian Revolution 1917-21 (Edward Arnold Publishing, 1994, London) Robert Goldston, The Russian Revolution (Phoenix House, 1966, London)