 In a celebratory mood, Stalin travelled by train to Petrograd in March.There, Stalin and fellow Bolshevik Lev Kamenev assumed control of "Pravda", and Stalin was appointed the Bolshevik representative to the Executive Committee of the Petrograd Soviet, an influential council of the city's workers.In April, Stalin came third in the Bolshevik elections for the party's Central Committee; Lenin came first and Zinoviev came second.