Answer: Lenin began plotting an overthrow of the Provisional Government. ... On November 7 and 8, 1917, Red Guards captured Provisional Government buildings in a bloodless coup d'état. The Bolsheviks seized power of the government and proclaimed Soviet rule, making Lenin leader of the world's first communist state.
(this part is how he came to power) Under the leadership of Russian communist dictator Vladimir Lenin, the Bolshevik Party seized power in the Russian Republic during a coup known as the October Revolution.
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