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Turning point · The Russian Revolution, 1905–1924
The Winter Palace
25 Oct/7 Nov 1917 — The seat of the Provisional Government falls almost without a fight — a few shots, not Eisenstein’s heroic storm. The hard part was not taking it, but calling what followed “Soviet power.”
This is one scene of Chapter 4 — October in The Russian Revolution, 1905–1924.
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