Ten Days That Shook the World · Character
Vladimir Antonov-Ovseenko
The Bolshevik field commander entrusted with the Winter Palace operation, Antonov-Ovseenko turned a chaotic siege into the revolution's defining symbolic victory.
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Also known as Antonov, a certain Avseenko, V. A. Avseenko
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Draws careful plans for the seizure of the capital.
Antonov-Ovseenko belongs to the small circle of Bolshevik leaders who translated political decrees into armed action in Petrograd. His task was delicate: to take the seat of the Provisional Government without either a bloodbath or a fiasco, while Kerensky's ministers stalled and yunkers manned the corridors. His success or failure would decide whether the October insurrection looked like a coup or a collapse, making him central to the book's middle arc.
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- Diverse Revolutionary Participants
- Bolshevik and Menshevik Figures
- Protagonist
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- Escalation
- Breaking point
- Aftermath
- Closing
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