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Fall of the Winter Palace (1917)

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25 Oct/7 Nov 1917 — The seat of the Provisional Government falls after only a few shots, far from Eisenstein’s heroic storm. Taking the Winter Palace was almost effortless. The harder question was what it meant to call the government that followed “Soviet power.”

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Turning point
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October Revolution (chapter 6 of Russian Revolution)
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The Russian Revolution, 1855–1924
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TURNING POINT · THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION, 1855–1924

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