The July Days shake Petrograd

1917 · Event

Armed workers and sailors rise half-spontaneously against Russia's Provisional Government; the rising fizzles, Lenin flees to Finland in disguise, and Trotsky is jailed. It looks like the Bolsheviks' end — until the Kornilov affair hands them back their guns six weeks later.

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