Later official accounts of the revolution from the Soviet Union would depict the events in October
as being far more dramatic than they actually had been.[15] (See firsthand account by British General
Knox.) This was helped by the historical reenactment, entitled The Storming of the Winter Palace,
which was staged in 1920.
This reenactment, watched by 100,000 spectators, provided the model
for official films made much later, which showed a huge storming of the Winter Palace and fierce
fighting (See Sergei Eisenstein's October: Ten Days That Shook the World).
[citation needed] In reality, the
Bolshevik insurgents faced little opposition.[14] The insurrection was timed and organized to hand
state power to the Second All-Russian Congress of Soviets of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies,
which began on 25 October. After a single day of revolution, 18 people had been arrested and two
killed.