The Bolshevik Party and the Soviets

On september nineteenth, the bolshevik party secured a majority inside the moscow soviet. The vote to create a new executive leadership council for the capital soviet resulted in one menshevik, two srs and four bolsheviks. This executive committee promptly voted to make leon trotsky president of the petrograd soviets. He was now able to speak not just as a karismatic bolshevikParty leader, but as president of thepetrograd soviet with all the implied legitimacy, authority and power that came with it. So heading into october 19 17, the central committee of the bolsheves were riding high