Establishment of Bolshevik Government

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2.5 - Establishment of the Bolshevik Government

The Kornilov Affair

• General Kornilov

• New supreme commander of the army

• Appointed by Kerensky

• Was to bring trustworthy troops to Petrograd

• Sent his troops to seize control of the government

• Kerensky denounced Kornilov

• PS used to defend Petrograd from counter-revolution

• Bolsheviks provided help

• Soldiers, workers and sailors prepared to defend city

• Red Guards appeared on street

• Kerensky supplied weapons

• Kornilov arrested

3rd April 1917 - Lenin returns to Russia - April Thesis

• Promise power to soviets

• Promise peace, land and bread

3rd June - first meeting of All-Russian Congress of Workers and Soldiers Deputies

2 July - Trotsky joins Bolsheviks

• Arrested 1905

• Co-chairman of soviet executive committee

• Leading revolutionary

• Originally menshevik

The July Days

• Series of strikes and protests

• Not organised by bolsheviks

• Promoted Bolshevik slogans

• Some troops armed protesters

• 20,000 armed sailors joined them

5 July - Bolshevik leaders…