Editing October Revolution (section)

===Planning===
[[File:CruiserAurora061609.jpg|thumb|Cruiser [[Russian cruiser Aurora|''Aurora'']]]]
[[File:GunAurora061609.jpg|thumb|Forward gun of ''Aurora'' that fired the signal shot]]

On 10 October 1917 (O.S.; 23 October, N.S.), the Bolsheviks' [[Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|Central Committee]] voted 10–2 for a resolution saying that "an armed uprising is inevitable, and that the time for it is fully ripe."<ref name="RevoltApproved">{{Cite web |date=10 October 1917 |title=Central Committee Meeting |url=https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/oct/10a.htm |website=www.marxists.org}}</ref> At the Committee meeting, Lenin discussed how the people of Russia had waited long enough for "an armed uprising," and it was the Bolsheviks' time to take power. Lenin expressed his confidence in the success of the planned insurrection. His confidence stemmed from months of Bolshevik buildup of power and successful elections to different committees and councils in major cities such as [[Petrograd]] and Moscow.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Steinberg |first=Mark |title=Voices of the Revolution, 1917 |date=2001 |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=978-0-3001-0169-0 |location=Binghamton, New York |pages=170 |ol=9360660M}}</ref><!-- Beckett notes the CC had explicitly *not* approved armed revolution. --> Membership of the Bolshevik party had risen from 24,000 members in February 1917 to 200,000 members by September 1917.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Cohen |first=Stephen |title=Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution: A Political Biography 1888–1938 |date=1980 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=London |page=46}}</ref>

The Bolsheviks created a revolutionary military committee within the Petrograd soviet, led by the Soviet's president, [[Leon Trotsky]]. The committee included armed workers, sailors, and soldiers, and assured the support or neutrality of the capital's garrison. The committee methodically planned to occupy strategic locations through the city, almost without concealing their preparations: the Provisional Government's President Kerensky was himself aware of them; and some details, leaked by [[Lev Kamenev]] and [[Grigory Zinoviev]], were published in newspapers.<ref name="arte">{{Cite news |date=16 September 2007 |title=1917 – La Revolution Russe |url=http://www.arte.tv/guide/fr/037647-000/1917-la-revolution-russe |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160201134229/http://www.arte.tv/guide/fr/037647-000/1917-la-revolution-russe |archive-date=1 February 2016 |access-date=25 January 2016 |publisher=Arte TV}}</ref><ref name="suny2011">{{Cite book |last=Suny |first=Ronald Grigor |author-link=Ronald Grigor Suny |title=The Soviet Experiment |date=2011 |publisher=Oxford University Press |pages=63–67}}</ref>