The Next Steps to Revolution

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  • Even within the Bolshevik Central Committee, Lenin faced opposition to his plans.
    • Grigori Zinoviev and Lev Kamenev both spoke out against Lenin.
    • However, Lenin won the vote on 10 October by 10 to 2.
    • Therefore, the Bolsheviks started to plan their seizure of power.
  • Trotsky persuaded Lenin to organise the timing to coincide with the meeting of the Congress of Soviets on 26 October.
    • In fact, Trotsky played a more important overall role than Lenin in the planning and execution of the seizure of power.
    • The role of Trotsky was highlighted in Reed's "Ten Days that Shook the World" but Stalin re-wrote this by demanding that Sergei Eisenstein's "October" be re-shot to portray Trotsky as a coward.