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Tuesday 7 November 2017

Вели́кая Октя́брьская социалисти́ческая револю́ция

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Petrograd, 7 November (25 October, Julian,) 1917...


The proclamation
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Kerensky & provisional government deposed...

The American Embassy, Petrograd.  Kerensky's refuge.


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 The New Bosses:



 
 

 
 
 

 

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The Masterminds:

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, aka Lenin.

Lev Davidovich Bronstein, aka Leon Trotsky.
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Eventually:

"Workers of the World Unite!"

Enshrined in a Holy Trinity

Красная звезда

                                    
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                        To so many of the war-weary Russian people,
                      it seemed like a good idea at the time.




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