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Ten Days That Shook the World · Character

Boris Kamkov

Boris Kamkov speaks for the peasants who must be won, the Left Socialist Revolutionary whose alliance with the Bolsheviks rests on a knife's edge of mutual need.

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Also known as Kamkov

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Kamkov belongs to the Left Socialist Revolutionaries, the logical heirs of peasant leadership, yet they are at the mercy of the organized city proletariat. His party's survival depends on delivering the countryside,…

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  • Diverse Revolutionary Participants

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  • Setup
  • Escalation
  • Breaking point
  • Aftermath
  • Closing

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