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After Lenin returned to St. Petersburg with the Bushelvik Party, Eder kept a close eye on the situation in Russia. In fact, European countries are now paying attention to the situation in Russia, but they will not think that Russia will leave the battlefield in an unexpected way.

After the Bushelviks returned to St. Petersburg to repel the insurgent 3rd Cavalry Corps, General Kornilov, the source of the rebellion, was released. As a compromise agreement between the two parties, Kornilov went to appease the emotions of the Third Cavalry Corps in exchange for his escape from prison.

Anton Ivanovich Denikin, who was mistaken for his gang as chief of the general staff, was also released together. So the unfortunate General Denikin had to leave the post of Chief of the General Staff and become a real deputy to General Kornilov.

After solving the problem of the rebellion, the military power in St. Petersburg was gradually mastered by the Bushelvik Party. At this time, the senior officials of the provisional government, who had found that the situation was not right, planned to make a fuss about the Soviet regime. Soviet; meaning "meeting of representatives" or "meeting." Because during the Russian Revolution of 1905, there was a congress of representatives organized by striking workers as a strike committee, referred to as "Soviet".

Soviet is a transliteration of Russian совет (English: soviet), which means meeting of representatives. Originating in the Russian Revolution of 1905, it was a form of direct democracy for workers and soldiers whose representatives could be elected and replaced at any time, implying a Paris Commune-style form of power.

In the earliest Soviet governments, the Mensheviks and other left-wing parties played a major role. Among them, Plekhanov was the chairman of the Soviet, Kerensky was the deputy chairman of the Socialist Revolutionary Party, and the Bushelvik Party played little role in it. But after the first reorganization of the Provisional Government, the Mensheviks and the Socialist Revolutionaries and others focused their attention on the Provisional Government.

They all hope that by participating in the provisional government, it will gradually transform into a left-wing government model. It has to be said that they almost succeeded. After the Kornilov rebellion was quelled, the interim government reshuffled the government cabinet for the third time on July 29. And this time, most of the provisional government is formed by left-wing party members, and the "all socialist government" once advocated by the Bolsheviks is about to be realized.

Only then did these left-wing parties realize that the Bushelviks had already taken the Soviets into their own hands, and that the force that allowed Bushelviks to control the Soviets came from the military. In the Soviets, which were not by universal suffrage at that time, the voting rights of soldiers were more than ten times higher than that of workers (there were only "Soviets of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies" at that time, and peasants were not counted), and the Mensheviks' leadership in the Soviets was replaced by Bolsheviks.

At this time, the Bolshevik Party had basically infiltrated the military forces around St. Petersburg. With the exception of a few places such as the Winter Palace, where there are still armed forces loyal to the government, the Bolsheviks have taken full control of the military in St. Petersburg. Now all it takes is a wave of the Bolshevik Party's arm, and this ripe fruit will fall into its hands. At this time, however, other voices emerged in the Bolshevik Party.

Zinoviev and Kamenev opposed Lenin's plan to seize power by armed force. The main reason was that they not only opposed it verbally, but also informed the Provisional Government of the time of the armed seizure of power among the Bolsheviks. Lenin, who has been busy for the Bolsheviks to seize the highest power in Russia, almost vomited blood after hearing the news of the two people's whistleblower. So he hurriedly asked Trotsky, Dzerzhinsky and others to discuss.

At this time, it is impossible to retreat, and everyone only discussed a way to launch in advance. And so on August 19, 1917, the Bolshevik-led revolution began. At this time, the army loyal to the Provisional Government in St. Petersburg was less than 30,000, while the Bolsheviks organized an army of 200,000 (but most of them were workers, and even if the workers were deducted, it was more than twice that of the Provisional Government).

Many soldiers in the interim government army are shaken, which has a lot to do with the unconditional peace talks propaganda by the Bolsheviks.

Because the largest anti-war group in Russia at the time was the soldiers, the Bolshevik slogans touched the hearts of these soldiers. So before the battle, the Bolshevik army had the advantage.

Lenin secretly came to the uprising headquarters - Smolny Palace, personally led the armed uprising. From the night of August 19, 1917 to the morning of August 20, more than 200,000 soldiers and insurgent workers quickly occupied various strategic positions in Petrograd.

At 1 a.m. on the 20th, the uprising troops occupied the General Post Office. At 2 o'clock the Baltic Railway Station and the Nikolaevsky Railway Station were captured. The lighting circuit in the government building was then shut down, and the telephone bureau cut off most calls to the interim government and the command. Around 6 o'clock, the Red Guards, soldiers and sailors had occupied the Palace Bridge. Except for the Palace Square and Isakievska Square, almost all other areas were in the hands of the insurgents.

Prime Minister of the interim government Kerensky fled in a panic in the car of the US embassy. At 10 o'clock, the Revolutionary Military Committee distributed the "Information to the Russian Citizens" drafted by Lenin, announcing that the provisional government had been overthrown and the power had been transferred to the Soviets.

After occupying the Palace Bridge. Except for the Palace Square and Isakievska Square, almost all other areas are in the hands of the insurgents. Prime Minister of the interim government Kerensky fled in a panic in the car of the US embassy. At 10 o'clock, the Revolutionary Military Committee distributed the "Information to the Russian Citizens" drafted by Lenin, announcing that the provisional government had been overthrown and the power had been transferred to the Soviets.

As for the scene of the attack on the Winter Palace, according to gossip, there was no armed conflict near the Winter Palace that night. There were only one women's battalion and one sergeant's camp guarding the Winter Palace. Surrender. Palizynski, the chief of defense of the Winter Palace, opened the gates of the Winter Palace himself and took them to the place where the ministers of the provisional government were meeting.

The Aurora cruiser, on the other hand, was being overhauled, unloaded and unmanned. Bereshev, the commissar of the temporarily appointed Aurora, fired only a few blank rounds (without warheads) at the Hermitage. On the night of the uprising, the Petrograd Military Revolutionary Committee issued a "Notice on the Overthrow of the Provisional Government", stating that the uprising "was victorious without shedding a drop of blood.

This made Eder, who was waiting for a good show, a little bit wrong. He said that the bloody battle of the Winter Palace had overwhelmed the provisional government. How could this happen.

However, after putting down the telegram from the Romanian Embassy in St. Petersburg, Eder needed to step up the preparations of the army, because according to his estimation, due to the time difference, Russia would not wait until 1918. Frigid weather dragged it down.