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Bolsheviks achieve majority in Moscow Soviet
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Bolsheviks achieve majority in Petrograd Soviet
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Trotsky elected chairman of Petrograd Soviet
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Lenin revives slogan 'All Power to the Soviets'
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Bolshevik Central Committee discusses whether to overthrow Provisional Government
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First full meeting of Military Revolutionary Committee (Milrevcom)
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Milrevcom troops and Red Guards begin to re-take city from Kerensky's forces.
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Lenin declares overthrow of Provisional Government
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Lenin issues first decrees
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Bolsheviks capture Winter Palace and overthrow Provisional Government
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Kerensky orders arrest of leading Bolsheviks, closure of Bolshevik newspapers and raising of bridges of central Petrograd