- The Kronstadt Mutiny
- 20,000 armed sailors took control of Petrograd and demanded the soviet take power
- "The communist revolution"
- Kornilov affair - The Bolsheviks are seen as defenders of Petrograd (looked like the provisional government was marching on Petrograd)
- Kornilov threatened to attack the city
- Bolsheviks led by Trotsky (military side)
- Lenin led the Petrograd uprising and it was bloodless
- Cruiser Aurora fired one blank shot at Winter palace
- Winter Palace defended by Cossacks, women's Battalion of Dead and cadets
- "Go where you belong from now on... into the dustbin of history!"
- Power now belonged to the soviets
- Mensheviks and the centre-right believed the Bolsheviks had gained power illegally
- They walked out of the second congress of soviets
- Decree on land allowed peasants to seize private land and redistribute it
- Decree on peace proposed a withdrawal from WW1 (Treaty of Brest-Litovsk)