“The Provisional Government had lost effective military control of the capital a full two days before the armed uprising began. This was the essential fact of the whole insurrection: without it one cannot explain the ease of the Bolshevik victory.”
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A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891 - 1924
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