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1) September 1917 - Bolshevik power was growing.
A) Largest party in Petrograd Soviet.
B) Controlled Military Committee of Soviet. Trotsky was chairman.
2) Lenin Returned - 16th October
Called for immediate takeover. Trotsky put plan into action.
3) 24th-25th October - Bolsheviks seized power.
A) Cut telephone wires, seized control of post office, railway station. Winter palace was isolated.
B) Bolshevik propaganda claimed seizure was triumph even before it was.
C) Kerensky and provisional government were so unpopular that few people were prepared to defend it.
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