On 14 November, at Tashkent, formation of the Turkestan Soviet Republic . Turkestan's Red Guards were cut off from Russia by Orenburg Cossacks, who sat astride the Tashkent – Orenburg - Moscow railroad. They were also blocked by the Emirate of Bukhara and the Khanate of Khiva, and anti-Bolshevik railway-men who held the Tashkent - Krasnovodsk line via Ashkhabad.

At Helsingfors, 84,000 workers went out on strike in support of the revolution. Finnish Red Guard units now controlled Kotka, Turku and other key towns in the south of Finland.

At Mogilev, Stavka announced its intention to “resist the Bolshevik elements by force.”

On 15 November, at Moscow, after heavy fighting the military cadets were forced to surrender to Red Guards at the Kremlin.

At Petrograd, the Bolsheviks acted to take control of the Navy. Pavel Dybenko was elected by the All-Russian Congress of Fleet sailors as People's Commissar of the Naval Ministry, while Kapitan 1-go ranga M.V. Vasilievich was appointed as Director of the Naval Ministry.

At Minsk, Red Guards with the support of an armored train seized control of the city.

In Ukraine, Red Guards seized control at Vinnitsa.

In the Don, at Novocherkassk, General Alekseev arrived at the invitation of Ataman Kaledin, and began forming units of the Volunteer Army. Alekseev was soon joined by Generals Kornilov and Denikin. In mid-month, part of the St. George Regiment from Kiev arrived at Novocherkassk.

On the Caucasian Front, Red Guards seized control of Baku and the Caspian Military Flotilla, which remained under their control until August 1918, when British forces entered Baku.

In mid-November, at Ekaterinodar, Kuban Cossack Ataman Filimonov implored General M.A. Przhevalskiy, commander of the Caucasian Front, to halt the flow of soldiers into the Kuban, which was impossible. The 39th Infantry Division abandoned the front. Its regiments helped set up Soviets at Tikhoretskaya, Tegovaya, Stavropol, Kavkazskaya and Armavir.

On 16 November, at Stavka, General N.N. Dukhonin assumed duties as the Supreme Commander in Chief. He summoned the Bolsheviks to unconditionally surrender to the Provisional Government, which in fact no longer existed.