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Vasily Shulgin

Conservative politician and member of the Duma.

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Also known as Shulgin, Cadet Shulgin

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Vasily Shulgin shows up with force in Appendix to Chapter I. The page is where that presence becomes real.

Quoted as a Cadet opposing the republic and advocating for a constitutional monarchy.
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In Appendix to Chapter I: Quoted as a Cadet opposing the republic and advocating for a constitutional monarchy. Later, in Growing Arrogance of the Reactionaries: Cadet Shulgin writes in a Kiev newspaper rejecting the…

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NANikolai Avksen…GPGeneral Pyotr …AGAbram GotzASAndrei ShingarevMRMikhail Rodzia…VSVasily Shulgin

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  • Diverse Revolutionary Participants
  • Socialist Revolutionary and Menshevik Leaders

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Story tension across the book — this chapter sits in Exposition.

SetupEscalationAftermathClimax
  • Setup
  • Escalation
  • Breaking point
  • Aftermath
  • Closing

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