Talk:Petrograd Military Revolutionary Committee

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I will need to check this properly, but this article could be biased, downplaying Trotsky's role and inflating Stalin's role. PatGallacher (talk) 21:15, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
 * The article claimed in the lede (until I edited it just now) that membership of the MRC consisted of Lenin plus "Joseph Stalin, Felix Dzerzhinsky, Yakov Sverdlov, Andrei Bubnov, Moisei Uritsky, and Pavel Lazimir, who was its chairman." While these seven men did (from what I recall from my readings) belong to the MRC, there were many more members including big names like Trotsky and Podvoisky. What that quoted sentence seemed to be doing is taking the five members of the "Military-Revolutionary Center" and adding Lenin and Lazimir onto it as the total membership of the MRC. The "Center" had been proclaimed by a resolution of the Bolshevik Central Committee and was intended to function as part of the MRC. In reality this "Center" never actually functioned, but the resolution was cited by Soviet historians from Stalin onward as part of obfuscating Trotsky's role in the October Revolution. It would be a good idea for the article to contain a full list of MRC members. --Ismail (talk) 14:46, 5 May 2022 (UTC)