“Nicholas was the source of all the problems… he was the empty space.”
“The collapse of the autocracy was rooted in a crisis of modernisation.”
“Popular uprising have never been organised by a people as a whole. Only a minority directly participates.”
“‘…the revolution transformation was not monopolised by the political elites but also involved the masses acting in their own interests and through their own organisations.”
“The autocracy collapsed in the face of popular demonstrations and the withdrawal of elite support for the regime.”
“The October seizure of power generated an exhilarating sense that a new world was in the offing where justice and equality would triumph over arbitrariness and exploitation.”
“The authority of the government had virtually collapsed for some weeks before the Bolsheviks seized the Winter Palace with a relatively insignificant group of ill-armed Red Guards.”
“It was caused by the spontaneous upsurge of the politically radicalised masses.”
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