- The Kronstadt Mutiny
- 20,000 armed sailors took control of Petrograd and demanded the Soviet take power
- Kornilov affair - The Bolsheviks are seen as defenders of 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 Death and cadets