2001 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Lenin as Revolutionary
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Lenin
Four weeks went by between the time Lenin first received news of the revolution in Russia and his arrival at the Finland Station in Petrograd. In those four weeks the tsarist regime had fallen, the tsar had abdicated, the Provisional Government had been established and the Petrograd Soviet had simultaneously come into being, creating the situation of ‘dual power’ in the country.