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Kornilov affair (1917)

On the Russian Revolution map as “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.

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Turning point
Chapter
Dual power in Russia (1917) (chapter 5 of Russian Revolution)
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The Russian Revolution, 1855–1924
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TURNING POINT · THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION, 1855–1924

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