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February and October 1917 are always taught as one thing — they weren't
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Every time I see "the Russian Revolution" treated as a single event in a textbook, I wince. The February revolution was a spontaneous collapse — nobody planned it, the Tsar's government simply dissolved. The Bolsheviks weren't even the dominant left-wing faction in February. October was something entirely different: a deliberate, organized seizure of power by a disciplined minority party. Lenin and Trotsky were working to a plan. The October coup succeeded in part because the Provisional Government had kept Russia in the war — a decision that bled them of popular support. The reason this distinction matters: conflating the two makes it look like Bolshevik rule was inevitable. It wasn't. There was a real window in 1917 where a different outcome was possible. Understanding why it closed is still genuinely instructive.
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