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The Peter and Paul fortress is taken, giving the Bolsheviks control of Petrograd
British and Canadian infantry, slithering through a morass of mud, capture the village of Passchendaele
Edmund Allenby takes the Palestinian town of Gaza, at the third British attempt
Bolsheviks storm the Winter Palace in Petrograd and arrest the ministers of the Provisional Government
Lenin issues a Decree of Peace, inviting Russia's enemies to enter into immediate peace negotiations
Lenin's Decree on Land abolishes private ownership of large estates and promises the land to the peasants
The Bolsheviks attempt to stifle opposition in the run-up to the election for Russia's new Constituent Assembly
Suitable ground is selected by the British at the battle of Cambrai for the first serious deployment of their new tanks
The Cheka (origin of the KGB) is established to suppress political dissent in Russia
The British commander Edmund Allenby captures Jerusalem from its Turkish defenders
Finland wins freedom from Russia and becomes an independent republic
Béla Bartók's opera Duke Bluebeard's Castle is finally staged in Budapest, nine years after its composition
The British viceroy in Dublin imprisons 73 Sinn Fein leaders, including Eamon de Valera, on allegations of a German plot
British women are at last given the right to vote, but only if aged 30 or over
Wafd, a national party, is formed in Cairo with the purpose of ending Egypt's enforced link with Britain
Lytton Strachey fails to show conventional respect to four famous Victorians in his influential volume of short biographes entitled Eminent Victorians
In Alexander Blok's poem The Twelve, Christ leads his apostles in support of Russia's revolution
Rebecca West publishes her first novel, The Return of the Soldier
The Russian artist Kasimir Malevich begins a series of White on White paintings
Marie Stopes, a committed advocate of birth control, publishes Married Love, a frank discussion of sexual relations
Eric Gill completes his Stations of the Cross for Westminster Cathedral
Dutch designer Gerrit Rietveld produces his 'Red and Blue Chair', under the influence of the De Stijl movement
Wilfred Owen, having returned to the front, is killed by machine-gun fire a week before the end of the war
In My Antonia Willa Cather's heroine survives setbacks on the Nebraska frontier
Countess Markiewicz, an Irish republican, is elected a member of Britain's House of Commons but refuses to take her seat
