Russian Revolution · TURNING POINT ·
Fall of the Winter Palace (1917)
On the Russian Revolution map as “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.”
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- October Revolution (chapter 6 of Russian Revolution)
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- The Russian Revolution, 1855–1924
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