The participants in this event used the slogan "Peace, Land, Bread," and toppled the provisional government of Alexander Kerensky.
Early in this event, one of its leaders crossed the city, wearing a handkerchief to feign a toothache and acting drunk to avoid inspections. Two days before this event, Jaan Anvelt led a similar one in Talinn. The main action of this event saw a nearly bloodless assault on a building held by junker cadets and a Women's Battalion, and was signaled by a blank shot fired from the cruiser Aurora. Recorded in Ten Days That Shook the World, this event was motivated in part by a general's attempted coup in the Kornilov Affair and resulted in a precursor to the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. The participants in this event used the slogan "Peace, Land, Bread," and toppled the provisional government of Alexander Kerensky. For 10 points, name this Russian coup led by Trotsky and Lenin late in 1917.
Early in this event, one of its leaders crossed the city, wearing a handkerchief to feign a toothache and acting drunk to avoid inspections.
October Revolution [or Bolshevik Revolution; or Red October; prompt on "Russian Revolution"]