Moscow Bolshevik Uprising

Moscow Bolshevik Uprising
	Part of the October Revolution and the Russian Civil War
	; The Little Nicholas Palace of the Kremlin following an artillery strike during the uprising
Date	25 October [O.S. 7 November] 1917 – 2 November [O.S. 15 November] 1917
Location	Moscow, Russia55°45′21″N 37°37′2″E
Result	Bolshevik victory
Belligerents
Bolsheviks Mossoviet; Military Revolutionary Committee;	Russian Republic Moscow City Duma; Moscow Military District; Stavka of the Supreme Commander; Junkers; Constitutional Democratic Party;
Commanders and leaders
Georgy Oppokov; Grigory Usiyevich; Nikolay Muralov; Jānis Pieče; Aleksandr Arosev; Vladimir Smirnov;	Alexander Kerensky; Vadim Rudnev; Konstantin Ryabtsev; Pyotr Krasnov;

The Moscow Bolshevik Uprising was the armed uprising of the Bolsheviks in Moscow, from 25 October (7 November) to 2 (15) November 1917 during the October Revolution of Russia. It was in Moscow in October where the most prolonged and bitter fighting unfolded. Some historians consider the fighting in Moscow as the beginning of the Russian Civil War.

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