The government’s pronouncements on the war reduced its popularity even further, while the Bolsheviks benefited, their party membership increasing by around one-third in the space of a month.īy late September the Bolsheviks commanded a voting majority in both the Moscow and Petrograd Soviets, in part because their delegates were better organised, more disciplined and attended ballots more regularly than those from other socialist groups.
The groundwork for a Bolshevik revolution was laid in September. They set about rebuilding the party’s organisational structure, increasing anti-war and anti-government propaganda and obtaining support. Though Vladimir Lenin was still in exile in Finland, other important radical leaders, including Leon Trotsky, had been released from detention. The Kornilov affair of August 1917 not only armed the Soviets and Red Guards, it also allowed the Bolshevik movement to regain the ground it had lost after the July Days.
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