OCTOBER REVOLUTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does October Revolution mean? 

• OCTOBER REVOLUTION (noun)
  The noun OCTOBER REVOLUTION has 1 sense:

1. the coup d'etat by the Bolsheviks under Lenin in November 1917 that led to a period of civil war which ended in victory for the Bolsheviks in 1922

  Familiarity information: OCTOBER REVOLUTION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OCTOBER REVOLUTION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The coup d'etat by the Bolsheviks under Lenin in November 1917 that led to a period of civil war which ended in victory for the Bolsheviks in 1922

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

October Revolution; Russian Revolution

Instance hypernyms:

coup; coup d'etat; putsch; takeover (a sudden and decisive change of government illegally or by force)

Domain region:

Russia; Soviet Union; Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; USSR (a former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia; established in 1922; included Russia and 14 other soviet socialist republics (Ukraine and Byelorussia and others); officially dissolved 31 December 1991)