Leon Trotsky25 October 1917
Presides over Congress as the uprising succeeds.
Russia · Government / Congress of Soviets. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
Presides over Congress as the uprising succeeds.
Presides over the Second Congress as Bolsheviks seize power.
The Second Congress confirms the Bolshevik takeover of government power.
Presents decrees on peace and land to the Second Congress
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