City council of Saint Petersburg between the February Revolution and end of the USSR
Petrograd Soviet
Formation
March 12, 1917 (1917-03-12)
Dissolved
1924 (renamed Leningrad Soviet)
Location
St. Petersburg (then Petrograd)
Chairman
Nikolay Chkheidze
Irakli Tsereteli[citation needed]
Leon Trotsky
Grigory Zinoviev
The Petrograd Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies (Russian: Петроградский совет рабочих и солдатских депутатов, Petrogradskij sovjet rabočih i soldatskih deputatov) was a city council of Petrograd (Saint Petersburg), the capital of Russia at the time. For brevity, it is usually called the Petrograd Soviet (Russian: Петроградский совет, Petrogradskiy soviet).
The Soviet was established in March 1917 after the February Revolution as a representative body of the city's workers and soldiers, while the city already had its well-established city council, the Saint Petersburg City Duma (Central Duma). During the revolutionary days, the council tried to extend its jurisdiction nationwide as a rival power center to the Provisional Government, creating what in Soviet historiography is known as the Dvoyevlastiye (Dual power). Its committees were key components during the Russian Revolution and some of them led the armed revolt of the October Revolution.
The PetrogradSoviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies (Russian: Петроградский совет рабочих и солдатских депутатов, Petrogradskij sovjet rabočih i soldatskih...
proved deeply unpopular and was forced to share dual power with the PetrogradSoviet. After the July Days, in which the government killed hundreds of protesters...
1917 (New Style) by the Provisional Committee in cooperation of the PetrogradSoviet, despite protests of the Bolsheviks. The government was led first by...
romanized: Petrogradskiy voyenno-revolyutsionnyy komitet) was a militant group of the PetrogradSoviet and one of several military revolutionary committees that were created...
as a result of the February Revolution: the Soviets (workers' councils), particularly the PetrogradSoviet, and the Russian Provisional Government. The...
military uprising. On 10 October 1917 (O.S.; 23 October, N.S.), the PetrogradSoviet, led by Trotsky, voted to back a military uprising. On 24 October (O...
Russian Provisional Government headed by Aleksander Kerensky and the PetrogradSoviet of Soldiers' and Workers' Deputies. The exact details and motivations...
unrest, soviet councils were formed by the locals in Petrograd that initially did not oppose the new Provisional Government; however, the Soviets did insist...
Socialist Revolutionary Party. Kerensky was also a vice-chairman of the PetrogradSoviet, a position that held a sizable amount of power. Kerensky became the...
the Moscow Soviet; on September 25, the PetrogradSoviet was headed by Leon Trotsky. Relying on their firm majority in the PetrogradSoviet, the Bolsheviks...
the 1917 February Revolution, he took up a leading position in the PetrogradSoviet and accepted a position in the Russian Provisional Government as Minister...
circles, and in September they decided to launch a coup against the PetrogradSoviet. But the Kornilov coup failed when his troops refused to fight, and...
The Executive Committee of the PetrogradSoviet, commonly known as the PetrogradSoviet Ispolkom (Russian: Петроградский исполнительный комитет) was a...
the Soviet government, with the first such election in 1919, also to the All-Russian Congress of Soviets, not including one to the PetrogradSoviet in...
Kornilov, the PetrogradSoviet endorsed the Bolshevik policy. The old Menshevik and Socialist-Revolutionary Presidium of the PetrogradSoviet, headed by...
PetrogradSoviet. Following several ambiguous correspondences between Kornilov and Alexander Kerensky, Kornilov commanded an assault on the Petrograd...
October Revolution, he was the chief of the Cheka secret police of the PetrogradSoviet. Uritsky was assassinated by Leonid Kannegisser, a military cadet,...
councils, known in Russian as 'Soviets', sprang up across the country, and the most influential of them, the PetrogradSoviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies...
governing body of Russian Empire, but competed for power with the PetrogradSoviet, which was created on the same day. The Government of Golitzine as...
between it, the soviets (chiefly the PetrogradSoviet), and various ethnic-based separatists (such as the Central Council of Ukraine). Soviets were political...
arrangement between the PetrogradSoviet and the Russian Provisional Government. The Executive Committee and the full Soviet endorsed Nikolai Sukhanov's...
leader of the PetrogradSoviet. In September, the Bolsheviks gained a majority in the workers' sections of both the Moscow and PetrogradSoviets. Recognising...
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