Russian Revolution 7-8 November 1917 Today is the 103rd Anniversary of the October Socialist Revolution. On 7-8 of November 1917 the Bolsheviks took control of the Winter Palace in Petrograd (Saint-Petersburg). The Russian Revolution of 1917 was one of the most explosive political events of the twentieth century. The violent revolution marked the end of the Romanov dynasty and centuries of Russian Imperial rule. During the Russian Revolution, the Bolsheviks, led by leftist revolutionary Vladimir