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“The Bolsheviks went after the provincials. Does this look like a gang of conspirators? The delegates agreed that it did not. "In Petrograd you are the power," they conceded […], "but not in the provinces, not at the front. Petrograd cannot go against the whole country." That's all right, answered the Bolsheviks, your turn will soon come the same slogans will be raised.”

Finished vol. 1. Onto the appendices.

“The congress could not make up its mind to lift a hand against the State Duma […]. Its timidity before the reaction was covered up by the Menshevik orator Bogdanov with the remark that the Duma and the Soviet are ‘dead and nonexistent organizations anyway.’ Martov, with his polemical wit, answered: ‘Bogdanov proposes that we should declare the Duma dead but not make any attempt upon its life.’”

“The most dangerous of the aberrations of the revolution arises when the mechanical accountant of democracy balances in one column yesterday, today and tomorrow, and thereby impels the formal democrats to look for the head of the revolution where in reality is to be found its very heavy tail. Lenin taught his party to distinguish head from tail.”

“The press accused the militia of acts of violence, requisitions, and illegal arrests. It is indubitable that the militia did employ violence: it was created exactly for that. Its crime consisted, however, in resorting to violence in dealing with representatives of that class which was not accustomed to be the object of violence and did not want to get accustomed to it.”

Beast mode

“The head of one of the Kostroma monasteries bitterly complained at the end of May against a requisition by the peasants of a third of his horned cattle. The reverend monk should have been more meek: he will soon bid farewell to the other two-thirds.”

It is funny how fucked the Provisional Government was, how virtually every choice they had was either do nothing and make everything worse, or do something for their interests and make everything worse faster.

Lenin entering every room and immediately saying “There’s an elephant in here. Has anyone acknowledged that yet?”

The cringiest dorks in the government off at the side, turning to each other and whispering: “This fucking moron just destroyed his chances at leadership”

After 299 pages of liberal nonsense, Lenin bursts onto the scene like Daddy Longdick just touching down in LA.