Multiple choice

Which of the following is the reason why the Military Revolutionary Committee was appointed in October 1917?

  1. To seize the power from the Petrograd Soviet

  2. Because Lenin feared the Provisional Government would set up a dictatorship

  3. To seize the Winter Palace which was still under the Tsar's control

  4. To seize the power from the Bolshevik Party

  5. To bring back Vladimir Lenin from exile
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B Correct answer
Explanation

This is the correct answer as the Provisional Government took stern measures to control the workers and arrested leaders and demonstrations staged by the Bolsheviks in July 1917 were sternly repressed. On 16th October, 1917, Lenin persuaded the Petrograd Soviet and the Bolshevik Party to agree to a socialist seizure of power and Military Revolutionary Committee was appointed.

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