Ten Days That Shook the World · Character
Nikolai Krylenko
The Bolshevik officer who could shout down a room of hostile soldiers, Krylenko embodied the revolution's gamble on turning the army itself against its old commanders.
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Also known as Krylenko, the Bolshevik Krylenko, Comrade Krylenko
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Announces the Twelfth Army's support for the insurrection at the Congress.
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Krylenko belongs to the militant Bolshevik cadre pushing the revolution from the barracks and the front lines into the heart of state power. His authority rests on a fragile wager: that soldiers and workers will follow…
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- Bolshevik and Menshevik Figures
- Diverse Revolutionary Participants
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- 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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