Ten Days That Shook the World · Character
Yakov Sverdlov
Bolshevik chairman of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, Sverdlov is the quiet machinery behind the Soviet Government's decrees.
supporting
Also known as Sverdlov
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As president of the Tsay-ee-kah, greets the peasant delegates at the union ceremony.
Yakov Sverdlov appears in Ten Days That Shook the World as supporting figure.
Yakov Sverdlov first appears in 0011 i background.
In XII: The Peasants’ Congress: As president of the Tsay-ee-kah, greets the peasant delegates at the union ceremony.
Later, in Appendix to Chapter X: Not directly mentioned in the excerpts, but referenced in the context of the Bolshevik leadership during the financial decree.
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- Other
Character groups
- Diverse Revolutionary Participants
- Bolshevik and Menshevik Figures
- Provisional Government and Soviet Leaders
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- Escalation
- Breaking point
- Aftermath
- Closing
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