Assertion (A): A Military Revolutionary Committee was appointed by the Soviets under Leon Trotsky to organize the seizure.

Reason (R): In 1918, Lenin persuaded Petrograd Soviet and the Bolshevik Party to agree to a socialist seizure of power.

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Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).

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(A) is true but (R) is false.

(A) is false but (R) is true.

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The Soviets appointed the Military Revolutionary Committee to organize the seizure for the coming revolution. The Military Revolutionary Committee light-emitting diode by revolutionaries confiscates government offices and renders the ministers of the interim government inactive. With this, the Bolsheviks overthrew the tentative government and launched a flourishing communist revolution in Russia.
The Soviets asked the Military Revolutionary Committee to prepare Petrograd's defense against an expected German attack. But, since the Bolsheviks were the sole organization with a free armed force, they took over the Military Revolutionary Committee and used it to topple the government.

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