<Tr> <Td> 29 June </Td> <Td> 16 June </Td> <Td> Kerensky orders offensive against Austro - Hungarian forces . Initial success only . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 1 July </Td> <Td> 18 June </Td> <Td> Official Soviet demonstration in Petrograd for unity is unexpectedly dominated by Bolshevik slogans: "Down with the Ten Capitalist Ministers", "All Power to the Soviets". </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 15 July </Td> <Td> 2 July </Td> <Td> Russian offensive ends . Trotsky joins Bolsheviks . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 16--17 July </Td> <Td> 3--4 July </Td> <Td> The "July Days"; mass armed demonstrations in Petrograd, encouraged by the Bolsheviks, demanding "All Power to the Soviets". </Td> </Tr>

2. the bolshevik revolution of 1917 in russia was caused in part by