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The military attempted a coup which was stopped in its tracks literally because the Bolsheviks destroyed the train tracks that would take the army to Petrograd. By October they were gearing up to take full power and dismiss the parliament.

There were mass protests to overthrow the Provisional Government followed by the rumor that Lenin was a German spy. This set the Bolsheviks back quite a lot and many ended up in prison.

The Soviet gave women the right to vote and started pulling power from the Provisional Government. Part of the group wanted to institute a liberal democracy through the elevation of the owners and well-educated and the others wanted to create a democracy guided by the workers.

Finished the first two chapters. There were a few bloody strikes leading up to 1917. The military members in St Petersburg eventually rebelled against their officers and went about killing police. The legislative body struggled for reforms while the Soviet pushed for a work-led transition to democracy.