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Statement 1: In 1918, Lenin persuaded the Petrograd Soviet and the Bolshevik Party to agree to a socialist seizure of power.

Statement 2: The Soviet appointed a Military Revolutionary Committee under Leon Trotsky to organise the seizure.

Read the above statements carefully and choose the correct option.

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Both statements are true
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Statement 1 is true, but statement 2 is false
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Statement 1 is false, and statement 2 is true
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Both statements are false
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The correct option is A Both statements are true
On 16 October 1917, Lenin persuaded the Petrograd Soviet and the Bolshevik Party to agree to a socialist seizure of power by overthrowing the provisional government.

The Soviet appointed the Military Revolutionary Committee to organise the seizure for the upcoming revolution. The Military Revolutionary Committee led by Trotsky seized the government offices and arrested the ministers of the provisional government. With this, the Bolsheviks overthrew the provisional government, and launched a successful communist revolution in Russia.

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