July Days

July Days
	Part of the Russian Revolution
	; Rioters on the Nevsky Prospect come; under machine gun fire, 17 July
Date	16–20 July [O.S. 3–7 July] 1917
Location	Petrograd, Russia
Result	Government victory, dispersion of demonstrations and strikes, arrest of Bolshevik leaders
Belligerents
Bolsheviks; Supported by:; Anarchists; Socialist Revolutionaries (Left)	Provisional Government; Supported by:; Mensheviks; Socialist Revolutionaries (Right)
Commanders and leaders
Vladimir Lenin; Leon Trotsky; Grigory Zinoviev; Lev Kamenev; Fyodor Raskolnikov	Georgy Lvov; Alexander Kerensky; Lavr Kornilov
Strength
500,000 demonstrators, 4,000–5,000 Red Guard soldiers, few hundred anarchist sailors, and 12,000 soldiers	Several thousand police and soldiers

The July Days (Russian: Июльские дни) were a period of unrest in Petrograd, Russia, between 16–20 July [O.S. 3–7 July] 1917. It was characterised by spontaneous armed demonstrations by soldiers, sailors, and industrial workers engaged against the Russian Provisional Government.^[2] The demonstrations were angrier and more violent than those during the February Revolution months earlier.^[3]

The Provisional Government blamed the Bolsheviks for the violence brought about by the July Days and in a subsequent crackdown on the Bolshevik Party, the party was dispersed, many of the leadership arrested.^[4] Vladimir Lenin fled to Finland, while Leon Trotsky was among those arrested.^[5]

The outcome of the July Days represented a temporary decline in the growth of Bolshevik power and influence in the period before the October Revolution.^[4]

^ Trotsky, Leon (1934). The History of the Russian Revolution. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd. p. 573.
^ Steinberg, Mark D. (2017). The Russian Revolution 1905-1921. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 75. ISBN 978-0-19-922763-1.
^ Steinberg, Mark D. (2001). Voices of Revolution, 1917. New Haven: Yale University Press. p. 152. ISBN 978-0-300-09016-1.
^ ^a ^b Steinberg, Mark D. (2001). Voices of Revolution, 1917. New Haven: Yale University Press. pp. 154–155. ISBN 978-0-300-09016-1.
^ Sauvain, Philip (1996). Key Themes of the Twentieth Century. United Kingdom: Stanley Thornes. p. 55. ISBN 978-0-7487-2549-6.

[1] Trotsky, Leon (1934). The History of the Russian Revolution. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd. p. 573.

[2] Steinberg, Mark D. (2017). The Russian Revolution 1905-1921. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 75. ISBN 978-0-19-922763-1.

[:9-3] Steinberg, Mark D. (2001). Voices of Revolution, 1917. New Haven: Yale University Press. p. 152. ISBN 978-0-300-09016-1.

[:0-4] Steinberg, Mark D. (2001). Voices of Revolution, 1917. New Haven: Yale University Press. pp. 154–155. ISBN 978-0-300-09016-1.

[5] Sauvain, Philip (1996). Key Themes of the Twentieth Century. United Kingdom: Stanley Thornes. p. 55. ISBN 978-0-7487-2549-6.

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