Answer:
(i) A conflict grew between the Provisional
Government and the Bolsheviks as Lenin feared that the Provisional Government
may set up a dictatorship.
(ii)
On 16 October 1917, Lenin persuaded them to accept socialists' power and
appointed a Military Revolutionary Committee under Leon Trotskii to organise
the seizure.
(iii)
The uprising began on 24 October and Kerenskii, the Prime Minister left the
city to call troops.
(iv)
In a swift response, the Military Revolutionary Committee ordered its
supporters to seize government offices and arrest ministers.
(v)
By nightfall, the city was under the Committee's control and the ministers had
surrendered.
(vi)
Uprisings took place in other cities. There was heavy fighting but by December,
the Bolsheviks controlled the Moscow-Petrograd area.
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