oct 1, 1917 - Bolsheviks gain a majority in the Petrograd Soviet

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Painting a vivid but untruthful picture of German and counter-revolutionary plots, Trotsky convinced the Petrograd Soviet to form a special military-revolutionary committee in October and make him its leader. Thus military power in the capital passed into Bolshevik hands. Lenin is leader.

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