in agreement with their decision to overthrow Czardom, and to transform Russia into a democratic bourgeous republic. Their intention was to over throw it by a social revolution. They had great differences on the method used to achieve their goals. This revealed two opposing ideas concerning the personal that would make the social revolution. The Bolsheviks, were led by Lenin. On the night of November 6,1917 the Bolsheviks staged a coup, engineered by Trotsky. They captured the government buildings and the Winter Palace in Petrograd. A cabinet, known as the Council of People’s Commissars was set up with Lenin as chairman, Trotsky as foreign commissar and Stalin as commissar of nationalities. The second congress immediately called for cessation of hostilities, gave private and church lands to village soviets, and abolished private property. ...
