First met in June 1917 and elected the All-Russian Central Committee of over 250 members dominated by the leaders of the Petrograd Soviet. The Second Congress of Soviets met on October 25, 1917, one day offer the start of the Bolshevik Revolution . Dominated by Bolshevik delegates the Second Congress of Soviets approved the Bolshevik coup d état and the decrees on peace and loud issued by Lenin. It also confirmed the Council of People s Commissars, drawn exclusively from Bolshevik Ranks, as the new government and elected the All-Russian Central Executive Committee. It adjourned on October 27 and was not reconvened.
