The Second Machine Gun Regiment demands Soviet power

Workers at the major armaments plant stopped work. Bolsheviks expressed support for their grievances while discouraging an isolated confrontation. The source date is 6/21/1917 Old Style.

The First Machine Gun Regiment declared that it would not send detachments to the front unless the war served revolutionary aims. The source date is 6/21/1917 Old Style.

Militants threatened direct action unless anarchists arrested in Petrograd were freed. The source date is 6/23/1917 Old Style.

Reports that the government intended to close Petrograd factories intensified fears of unemployment and deliberate dispersal of militant workers. The source date is 6/24/1917 Old Style.

A Grenadier Guard unit returning from the front aligned itself with radical soldiers and anarchists around Kronstadt. The source date is 6/26/1917 Old Style.

Soldiers refused orders to provide replacement companies for the front, demonstrating the government’s weakening authority over the army. The source date is 7/1/1917 Old Style.

Armed machine-gunners arrived from Oranienbaum and rejected Soviet Executive Committee instructions to return. The source date is 7/1/1917 Old Style.

Machine-gunners and other soldiers decided to demonstrate against the Provisional Government, demanding transfer of power to the soviets. The source date is 7/3/1917 Old Style.

Delegations brought factory workers into the streets, turning the soldiers’ initiative into a vast movement across Petrograd. The source date is 7/3/1917 Old Style.

Unable to stop the movement, Bolshevik leaders sought to keep it organized and direct elected delegations toward the Soviet leadership. The source date is 7/3/1917 Old Style.