The Junker mutiny ( ) was a counterrevolutionary mutiny of military school cadets in Petrograd against the Bolsheviks in October 1917 .

On October 29 , the Red Guard patrol detained Arrest one of the leaders of the Junker mutiny , an Eser named Aleksandr Arnoldovich Bruderer , who had a plan of the mutiny with him .

Also cadets from military schools , the so-called Junker mutiny supported Supporting Kerensky in his bid to retake control of the government .