Ten Days That Shook the World · Character
Fyodor Dan
Menshevik leader in the Soviet of Workers' Deputies, Dan fights to hold the moderate line as the Bolshevik tide rises around him.
supporting
Also known as Dan
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Presides over the opening of the Second Congress of Soviets as a Menshevik leader.
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In IV: The Fall of the Provisional Government: Presides over the opening of the Second Congress of Soviets as a Menshevik leader. Later, in Appendix to Chapter IX: Dan proposes an ultimatum demanding the abolition of…
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- Other
Character groups
- Bolshevik and Menshevik Figures
- Diverse Revolutionary Participants
- Protagonist
- Provisional Government and Counter-Revolutionaries
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Story tension across the book — this chapter sits in Exposition.
- Setup
- Escalation
- Breaking point
- Aftermath
- Closing
The emotional peak occurs when the narrator, after witnessing the destruction of sacred and historic Kremlin s…
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