sep 10, 1917 - Significance

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- Trotsky forms the Red Guard with 40,000 radical workers
- Red Guards gain considerable credibility as the saviours of Petrograd when Kornilov is captured and placed under house arrest
- Kerensky seen as weak and politically inept
- Bolsheviks gained majority in the Petrograd and Moscow Soviets by September
- Trotsky elected Chairman of the Petrograd Soviet

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