How Did Trotsky Contribute To The Bolshevik Revolution

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Who made the most important contribution to the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution - Lenin or Trotsky? Lenin and Trotsky were the leaders of the Bolshevik revolution, both contributing considerably in their own ways. Though that is understood, Trotsky did the most important contribution to the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution in my opinion. Trotsky did the thinking. Albeit Lenin being the supposed 'man in charge'. Trotsky was really the one to give out orders for operations and such. He returned to Russia to join the Bolsheviks in Petrograd and became the head of the Revolutionary Military Committee in the ‘October’ Revolution. He organized the Bolshevik troops who seized Petrograd and became the Commissar for Foreign Affairs in the first Soviet government.