October Revolution
- Provisional Committee of the State Duma (Provisional Government)
- Petrograd Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies
- Aleksandr Kerenskii
- April Theses
- Brusilov Offensive
- Military-Revolutionary Committee
- Second All-Russian Congress of Soviets
- October Revolution
New structures
- All-Russian Congress of Soviets
- Central Executive Committee (TsIK)
- Council of People's Commissars (Sovnarkom)
- Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party (bolsheviks) (RSDWP(b))
- Central Committee
- Secretariat, Orgburo, Politburo
1917 into Civil War:
- Constituent Assembly
- the Cheka (All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Struggle against Counter-Revolution, Sabotage, and Speculation
- Feliks Dzerzhinskii
- Treaty of Brest-Litovsk