Bolsheviks consolidation of power 1917-24

• • Bolshevik seizure of power:
  • Oct. 30: Defeat of General Krasnov's Cossacks secures Petrograd for Bolsheviks
  • Relatively bloodless coup in Petrograd
  • Nov. 2: Bitter fighting in Moscow ends with Bolshevik shelling of Kremlin
  • Bolsheviks reinforced by troops from Petrograd in Moscow