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IN TEN Days That Shook the World, US socialist journalist John Reed set down, in a classic narrative of startling vitality, his personal experience of the days straddling the seizure of political power in Petrograd on Wednesday, November 7, 1917 by the Bolshevik Party led by Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin.
The “seizure of power” involved relatively little violence — much of it was a “taking” without opposition.
Petrograd, then the seat of Russia’s government and until the war with Germany called St Petersburg, was won easily.
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