Bolsheviks seize power; Lenin named head of new Communist government (nov 6, 1917 – nov 7, 1917)

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---> On the night of November 6, militants from Trotsky’s committee joined with trusted Bolshevik soldiers to seize government buildings in Petrograd and arrest members of the provisional government. Then they went on to the Congress of Soviets, where a Bolshevik majority — roughly 390 of 650 excited delegates — declared that all power had passed to the soviets and named Lenin head of the new government.
--> Now Lenin’s supporter Leon Trotsky, a spellbinding revolutionary orator and radical Marxist, brilliantly executed the Bolshevik seizure of power.

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