#VILenin's #AprilTheses were first heard in a speech on #ThisDayInHistory in 1917, a day after returning to Russia. In them, #Lenin rejected the #FirstWorldWar, the #ProvisionalGovernment, and a republic; and calls for the "abolition of the police, the army, and the bureaucracy".
" #PoliticalCareer #TheWhiteGeneral and the #RegentOfFinland #FinnishCivilWar In December 1917, Finland declared independence from Russia, now ruled by the #Bolsheviks who had overthrown the #ProvisionalGovernment in the OctoberRevolution."