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Turning point · The Russian Revolution, 1905–1924
The Kornilov affair

Aug/Sep 1917 — A general marches on Petrograd to crush the soviet; Kerensky, panicking, arms the Bolsheviks to stop him. The coup collapses — and the men who saved the capital now hold its guns.
This is one scene of Chapter 3 — Dual Power in The Russian Revolution, 1905–1924.
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