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| b7f0519 | The Provisional Government had lost effective military control of the capital a full two days before the armed uprising began. This was the essential fact of the whole insurrection: without it one cannot explain the ease of the Bolshevik victory. | insurrection russian-revolution | Orlando Figes | |
| f78ac59 | The remarkable thing about the Bolshevik insurrection is that hardly any of the Bolshevik leaders had wanted it to happen until a few hours before it began. | insurrection russian-revolution | Orlando Figes |