This talk will look at the way workers, particularly in Petrograd, organized for struggle and for power during the 1917 Revolution. Often caricatured as a coup, the Russian Revolution represents the pinnacle of worker self-organization. Drawing on the work of S.A. Smith, this presentation will cover the creation of factory committees and unions that facilitated the class struggle; the dynamic of spontaneity, organization, and bureaucracy; and the interplay of the economic and political struggles to better understand how the Bolsheviks rose to prominence and fulfilled the demand of “All Power to the Soviets.”