This is a fine source for those studying at length the #OctoberRevolution, Lenin’s farcical attempt to convince people that this was a #people’s #uprising despite the often widespread ferocious objection of revolutionary people. #Lenin & #Trotski studied the convenient minutiae of the revolutionary impetus after the trial and excution of LXVI, & so to #Robespierre’s #terror. Tempted to add the the narratives of #Solzhenitsyn & #VarlanShalamov (#KolymaStories) do the colouring in. #Russia